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   Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 02:44:33 JST Daniel Gultsch

   The good news is you don’t have to wait for the slow, democratic process of the European Union to impose tariffs on US-based digital services. You can boycott Amazon, WhatsApp, and Signal today.

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     daltux (daltux@snac.daltux.net)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 02:44:30 JST daltux

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     • SamuelJohnson
     @daniel@gultsch.social @samueljohnson@mstdn.social Going even further, you do not even have to trust any server: just run your (or your collective) own #XMPP server or pay someone to set it for you, federating or not. Anyway, then you choose the software the server runs and each user also is free to choose their XMPP client.
     
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     Daniel Gultsch (daniel@gultsch.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 02:44:31 JST Daniel Gultsch

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     • SamuelJohnson

     @samueljohnson Glad you asked. Signal is a centralized service run on Big Tech infrastructure. You can decide to trust Signal as your service provider; That’s absolutely fine and reasonable even. But they don’t allow federation or inter-op with anyone who wants to make different choices.

     #XMPP gives you that choice. Don’t trust me to be your server operator? That’s fine: pick a different one.

     Donations to Signal are directly funding Amazon, Google and Microsoft.¹

     ¹: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824506840

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     SamuelJohnson (samueljohnson@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Apr-2025 02:44:32 JST SamuelJohnson

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     @daniel Why include Signal? It's supported by a non-profit foundation and is usable without surrendering one's privacy. It's secure, can be used both anonymously and without payment. Not remotely in the same category as either Amazon or WhatsApp (and many others, Google, Apple etc).

     Because American = bad?

     That just isn't true.

     Abhiseck Paira :gnu: repeated this.