• tuckerm@supermeter.social
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    7 months ago

    I know that Telegram has a lot of users, so I’m not describing all of them here. But I’ve noticed that it seems especially popular among people who kind of like to “play pretend” as underground hackers. You know, the kind of person who likes to imagine that the government would be after them.

    This mudslinging feels like more of a marketing campaign than anything else. An info op that will work well on the Telegram users who like to imagine that they have outmaneuvered all the info ops.

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      7 months ago

      Yes. And those pretenders are always people who can’t install Synapse and “delete” their messages thinking that’s very smart.

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      7 months ago

      Because we keeping saying Signal and Telegram instead of Anti-Libre Software, Service as a Software Substitute, and Centralised.

      We should reach them in their spaces, moding, hacking, piracy and beginner programming channels.