DaseinPickle

You are right. We should give up all hope at just give in, there is nothing we can do.

Maybe Write Freely? You get 3 blogs for 6 dollars a month or you can host it yourself since it’s open source.

https://write.as/pricing

https://writefreely.org/

If people actively pay for this, they are bloody idiots.

Yes, but they do it in a way that make rich people even richer. And the trickle down economy makes sure that it also makes politicians richer.

It’s owned by Meta/Facebook a company that’s makes its money spying on users. Signal or Simplex Chat are much better choices.

I think something like Simplex Chat is easier to use.

https://simplex.chat/

I’m sure the Saudis are super fair and would not dream of targeting queer people.

She links to a news article: https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/641746/SAUDI-ARABIA/Etidal-Telegram-remove-over-16-million-extremist-contents-in-early-2024

I don’t think Telegram denies doing mass surveillance. They might deny targeting queer groups and claim to only target extremist, whatever that means.

Maybe not Russia, but they sure are working with a certain government:

https://mastodon.social/@alshafei/112413115927959085

I mean it’s pretty bad to practice mass surveillance.

https://mastodon.social/@alshafei/112413115927959085

It’s not nothing if Telegram makes people believe they only share their location in a limited manner, but instead broadcast it to the whole world. That’s a serious breach of trust. I don’t know why Telegram users keep making excuses for that platform.

Maybe fix Telegrams privacy problems.

https://www.404media.co/this-tool-shows-some-telegram-users-approximate-physical-location/