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crossroadsguy ◴[17 Jun 25 04:34 UTC] No.44295798[source]▶
The frogs have been boiled enough by now gradually and very efficiently. They have been primed well.

(In another news Signal still has focus on crytpo. Is this Firefox+Pocket level of stickiness and “we are right!”?).

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cocoto ◴[17 Jun 25 05:46 UTC] No.44296071[source]▶
Criticizing Signal for its crypto payment system is ridiculous. The option is totally optional and completely buried as it is literally the last option when messaging. It’s better to criticize the rule against third-party clients.
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mort96 ◴[17 Jun 25 06:27 UTC] No.44296215[source]▶
Both things are worthy of criticism. I'd ideally not use a messaging client that's embroidered in an ecosystem of cryptocurrency scams. Same reason I really don't like Brave even though its cryptocurrency BS is also "optional". It's erosive.

But yeah, I might agree that the third party clients thing is a bigger issue. Especially when the official client insists on not officially supporting Linux on ARM64 and not playing nice with Wayland. (Seriously, Signal on Linux is so blurry!)

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1. dwedge ◴[17 Jun 25 11:11 UTC] No.44297730[source]▶
> Same reason I really don't like Brave even though its cryptocurrency BS is also "optional".

It isn't, or wasn't, optional. They used to MITM crypto into your Twitter feed after decrypting the SSL. There's also the famous Tom Scott controversy where they were pretending to be him and collecting donations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18736888

I uninstalled it in 2017 or 2018 when they started this crap and haven't looked back.