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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • That’s the problem with using email to explain lemmy. That user couldn’t understand the connection (even though fundamentally the comparison is correct). A better metaphor would be multiple reddit websites and you can sign up with any of them and see content from the other sites from your account. Then just replace “reddit” with whatever platform you’re having the conversation on. i.e. If you’re talking to someone on twitter, replace reddit with twitter when explaining it.









  • The incident has raised sometimes-misguided questions, too, about whether Signal itself is to blame for the breach—including from President Trump, who suggested in comments on Wednesday that Signal might be “defective"—despite many cybersecurity and encryption experts’ recommendation of Signal as the best end-to-end encrypted messaging tool freely available to the public. “You use Signal, we use Signal, everyone uses Signal,” Trump told reporters, “but it could be a defective platform.”

    This was one of my worries when the news broke. They’re not focusing on this particular (misguided) point right now, but I’m worried they’ll try to go after encrypted messaging next once they run out of excuses and the deflection no longer works.