Signal is too darn secure. Much better to have one dude who probably knows how to use a crypto library build the whole thing over again with a coat of ActivityPub on top

You can also just lie about your current salary.

This isn’t really specific to federated software. The client can go offline but the server can’t. Same applies to all centralized services. The only place this really applies is for decentralized (as in, no central points) systems, and those tend to have a lot of special sauce to make other people being offline less painful

Wow you’re just posting dumb takes all over this thread huh

I seem to recall some kind of social movement about law enforcement continuing to abuse their power somewhat recently, did you happen to notice that? I also recall approximately zero meaningful changes coming from it in most places.

This is a guide for local law enforcement. Also spoilers: federal laws aren’t all good and just, and extra spoilers for people who really haven’t been paying attention: the FBI sometimes goes after people who haven’t committed crimes but did stuff the FBI didn’t like.

I believe once upon a time, back when Signal was called TextSecure, it actually supported this. I don’t remember how it knew the remote party was on TextSecure, I think it may have just let you send anyone encrypted messages, regardless of whether they could read them but I could be wrong. It’s been a long time.

if it’s not free what’s the benefit of using PeerTube? You’re basically describing nebula

You’re allowed to upload the same .mp4 file to multiple websites. There’s absolutely no reason why a creator that isn’t getting YouTube ad money couldn’t upload to YouTube and PeerTube at the same time. Presumably if they’re getting YouTube monetization, they have some kind of exclusivity agreement.

Seems unlikely that a creator would jump ship from a platform that pays them to a platform that doesn’t. That being said, lots of creators also constantly complain about demonetization, so maybe they’ll start to get fed up and move to purely in-video sponsorship things. Seems most likely from a creator that’s already on a platform like nebula