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@pixelcode @taylan Your nonchalant "So what?" gets people publicly murdered by the state in many juristictions...
- Which is why there is no substitute to teaching proper #TechLiteracy ffs!
If things were so easy as in "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" then @signalapp would be shut down.
- Or do you really think that in a world where multi-year long sting ops like #ANØM / #OperationIronside / #OperationTrøjanShield get greenlit that @Mer__edith would risk dying of old age in jail for non-paying users?
If you do think so then you should really get some professional help, cuz you seem rather lost...
- #Signal doesn't even bother to have an #OnionService, much less to provide means to use their service without self-doxxing with a #PhoneNumber, which at best is pseudonymous and requires money to attain and maintain...
It's #centralization is an absolute nightmare and mist be deemed as criminally neglectful!
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For every messenger there's the risk of someone finding out that you use that messenger (for example when you download the app without a proxy or when you rent a server for self-hosting). So what?
Nothing and no one stops you from voluntarily using Tor to connect to Signal (Orbot, InviZible, Advanced Privacy etc.). For those oppressed by authoritarian regimes, Signal offers easy-to-use censorship-circumvention proxy support built into the app.
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360056052052-Proxy-Support
but don't trust 
and then fall for shitty