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Today is March 23, 2024. Block height of 835915

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Probably not ISIS but rather a false flag by the West and Ukraine...

Good god. Ew CEOs have been pathetic for decades

This man approaches you at a party and starts talking about decentralized social media protocols, wyd?

They already control half of Oklahoma

Yeah, it mainly only mattered for Android which is used by 95% of the people I talk to. Setting it as the default SMS app essentially resulted in a net gain for them without doing anything else. As a result, almost everyone I messaged was using Signal with me.

I used to do that too. The number is zero now because no one is willing to anymore. They all went back to SMS with me after it no longer worked as their default SMS app.

GM ☕️ 🍊

I have been able to convince exactly 0 people to use #Signal after they dropped SMS support.

Most of the people I convinced to use it only used it mostly with me. BUT, the selling point was that they could just set it as the default (better) SMS app and not just have another fucking messaging app just for me.

About 90% of MY communication used to be encrypted on Signal, even if theirs wasn't (it didn't matter to them).

Now? All of them are back to sending me SMS. This erased about two years of work I put into converting people.

So great, Signal is now more secure. Except no one in my life uses it with me anymore. Where exactly is the benefit we were supposed to see?

This is an old topic at this point, but just wanted to call out the fact that what many of us predicted is now a reality.

The interesting thing is that overlapping people in my network (friends, family, etc) were starting to use encryption incidentally without even knowing it.

A network effect that took a lot of work was completely destroyed by one decision.

Signal is dead in my life now and it's truly sad. I'm putting an end to my fruitless attempts to convert people. Sad.

#Security #Cybersecurity

If you have any issues with nostr usability, UI, or just have some great ideas, please share them with #nostrdesign (use this hashtag). I will personally write down every issue or idea and look it over every so often to see what can be done. If it's a technical issue, it may not get resolved fast as each client has their own laundry list of issues to deal with. But design stuff, one of the designers here can tackle and pimp around to see if it grows legs 🦵

I'm also starting a list of things I've already designed, or jotted down.