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• danielbln 2y ago
  A nitter instance that still works? What is this sorcery?
  • LoganDark 2y ago
    Lack of widespread use most likely. Maybe some people put Nitter on their personal user account and it works until it has too many users.
  • anthk 2y ago
    Replace https://twitter.com https://twitter.com with https://twiiit.com https://twiiit.com (3 i's), it will automatically redirect a Twtr link to a working instance.
  • rglullis 2y ago
    Nitter still works if you configure the instance to use valid accounts.
    • viraptor 2y ago
      * enough valid accounts. If the instance gets popular, you're going to need hundreds of them to get past rate limits according to the announcements some time ago (maybe the rate limits have changed though)
• rigid 2y ago
  Signal has reproducible builds for android now? Why not f-droid then, too?
  • kuschku 2y ago
    Signal's definition of "reproducible" meant for quite a while "download this binary docker image and build Signal inside of it". I don't know if that has changed since. Signal rejects F-Droid for a different reason, though: They only want to distribute through channels where they get download statistics and control update rollouts.
    • rigid 2y ago
      Hm f-droid provides privacy friendly https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/ https://fdroid.gitlab.io/metrics/ for some time now. I'm not sure what sort of "control" they have over the Play Store compared to f-droid, but I'd rather have a trusted 3rd party do the building transparently and verifyable.
      • noirscape 2y ago
        F-Droid uses a package maintainer-esque process where the maintainers of F-Droid can intervene and prevent an update to an app from reaching users if it's deemed to be malicious or to add anti-features. It's of particularly high need on mobile since popular apps, even those who were originally FOSS, are sold to scummy publishers who fill it with ads and subscription schemes (oft called anti-features, since removing them could be seen as a feature in and of itself), ruining the original. You can't really trust mobile app devs because the track record is downright awful. Recently that happened with the "Simple" collection of apps, where the Play Store version got filled with junk but the F-Droid maintainer froze the version and marked the apps as outdated since nobody could conceivably want the new versions. Of course, that strokes poorly with developers who a. don't want to deal with potential third parties in their distribution chain rejecting their updates or b. are planning to add anti-features to their apps later down the line. With signal, I'm gonna guess it's mainly a; the Play Stores checks and balances are much less invasive than the sort of thing an F-Droid maintainer might check for. (As I understand it, Google Plays checks mostly are anti-exploit and keyword scans.)
        • rigid 2y ago
• OSI-Auflauf 2y ago
  On Signal vs Telegram: Telegrams Encryption is off most of the time. They have serverside access to messages. The optional E2E is annoying to use and isnt even available on every platform. For example Tdesktop afaik still has no E2E support. (And has a very brittle software architecture.) You can't register Telegram accounts with the open source client anymore. This should be a non-Discussion. MG implying that just because other messengers like Whatsapp use Signals encryption scheme does not make them more more trustworthy. Yes you can verify in a binary if the stuff is implemented well. But if a vendor has control over the update channel or beta rollout features its kinda easy to hide targeted features. Wasn't Whatsapp caught exfiltrating chats in ways that don't involve the normal channel bypassing E2E? Btw there is no Signal in Fdroid but nowadays there is an accepted by upstream third party implementation. You could separate software and infra vendor. Look at Molly.im Better to bring non tech folk to Signal than to other messengers that do the same but less protected. Matrix? Lol!
  • nurumaik 2y ago
    You can buy "anonymous number" on fragment without using any client and without providing any personal information and use it as much as you can When signal becomes at least remotely as popular as telegram it will implement same protection to fight against spammers because you can't have free unrestricted registrations and don't drown in spam Telegram currently makes it as accessible as possible: either use it freely but register using phone number and official app or pay and use anonymously as you want
    • aniviacat 2y ago
      I just looked at the fragment.com site to see how much such a number costs. The lowest possible bid you can currently make, and that is for an auction that has six days to go, so probably not even the final price, is over 100$. That is an unacceptable price for basic privacy.
    • tapoxi 2y ago
      Signal is already extremely popular, their anti-spam by default is that you need to get matched to the user's local contact list or the spam becomes an allow/deny prompt. They also require a confirmed phone number and handle registration throttling.
• tetris11 2y ago
  Ah so that's how Telegram got reproducible iOS builds: > you need a jailbroken (old) iPhone. And at the end you still can’t verify the whole app. Some files stay encrypted So basically, it works you just have to bend over backwards to verify that it's truly reproducible.
• gardenhedge 2y ago
  Woah, people are still doing that thing where they break a post into 10+ tweets?
  • EasyMark 2y ago
    Of course, it's either that or a png of the text from a text editor or pay for blue check account, neither of which are optimal for most people