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    I don’t mean to imply anything, but this post was listed maybe one scroll away from the piracy community welcoming everyone to SimpleX. Unfortunate timing.

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        Infrastructure will always be used by evil and good. If it exists. Just like a road. Normal people use them as well as murderers.

        If a good encryption chat software exists it will be used. It’s necessary for normal privacy and sensitive topics between people but those ones will also use it. Nothing to do about it.

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          Ywah, but it sucks when malicious actors use it enough to bring attention from authorities who will do eveeything they can to undermine everyone’s privacy.

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            Also extra sad when you realize they didnt care or investigate those nazis before, but will now claim that they cant do their work because muh encryption.

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        I don’t really get either of these comments. No one should be using telegram for anything other than a discord clone, and of course the shady turds will gravitate to privacy-focused messaging apps. I mean presumably that’s why the turds chose telegram initially, they just fucked up the due diligence and thought telegram was secure because they credulously believed the founder dude who folded under state pressure.

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          It would be nice if the first publicity it got wasn’t for being the choice of Nazis. I don’t like that if I mention to a coworker that I use it, there’s going to be that question of “wait, is this guy secretly a white supremacist”.

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          “Darkweb”? I was under the impression that it means a messenger that is onion/i2p-only. Simplex, while having an easy Tor integration, is mostly used by clearnet.

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          That’s a good point to it tho. It means Simplex is simple enough for anyone, even telegram pogromists to use. Advanced stuff became user-friendly, so average folks can with some adjustment come to it too.

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    Amazing how we never get these headlines…

    “PC gamers are fleeing windows to Linux because microshit is a creep”

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      Well most windows users aren’t using it to organize neonazis or sell drugs (which is at least half of telegrams users) so maybe that’s why

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            There’s no analogy, because windows users are not fleeing.

            I read it as a “wish for people to get fed up with windows” comment, and not a “windows users are nazis” comment.

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              Wow. I mean, Linux has a heavy fanbase here, but I’ve never seen someone shoehorn a discussion of Microsoft vs Linux into a thread about Nazis out of the blue.

              Impressive.

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      No identifiers, so your social graph stays private.

      Also has an independent security audit.

      To deliver messages, instead of user IDs used by all other platforms, SimpleX uses temporary anonymous pairwise identifiers of message queues, separate for each of your connections — there are no long term identifiers.

      https://simplex.chat/#how-simplex-works

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        So then how do you pair with a connection? Do you send them (out of band like through email or something) some kind of key that they then accept? That sounds super annoying.

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        For me, the main distinction is selfhostability (although I have concerns about the majority keeping using the default servers, I could still ask a friend or family member to use mine).

        Also I am a bit concerned about them pushing the “No identifiers” thing which seems misleading, since you’re still identified, just per-conversation.

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    Smear campaign

    A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone’s reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[

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    Why not link the original source?

    Was this article funded by a would-be surveillance state? If not, I wonder what David Gilbert’s headline will be when he learns that roads, telephones, postal services, and conference halls are also used by neo-nazis.

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    Neo-nazis, or any kind of fascists, have no space anywhere. They can fuck off to the next platform, but they can’t run forever

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    Sounds like a virus. Herpes SimpleX? Have fun with that.

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        Different backgrounds will draw different conclusions. Being in the medical field and not ham radio (had to look up what you’ve mentioned) it would never have occurred to me.

        I didn’t mean to offend. Nazi ideology can be like a virus and so is what I stated in my comment. A poorly made joke I guess.

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          Ah, and I am into radio) I don’t see the offense, as well as I don’t see the inherent evil here. The protocol wasn’t catering to such people (idk if there are even examples of a protocol being this - only platforms, like Gab, come to mind) and it’s just unfortunate it’s getting such associations.