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Clients are open source. Independent clients exists and they work. So the server must kind of do what signal claims, otherwise those devs would notice.

can you trust it when a researcher was able to identify Tor users 100% of the time in a lab experiment and 81% of the time in real-world tests [1][2]?

I know that you are doing this conspiracy thinking on purpose to confront Dessalines about their bias, but while this is not obvious to everyone:

While it is true what you say, it is beyond meaning for the most usage of Briar. The researchers result depended on a honeypot that served a large file. Don't have contacts that act as honeypot and you're safe. When chatting with strangers, the technique discovered by that researcher might not be relevant to Briar, but I have not enough knowledge to make a claim about that.

@KLISHDFSDF You may like to make a TL;DR that clarifies the intention of that post.

It's very confusing for anyone who didn't read Dessalines anti signal article, and even more if one doesn't know that you are questioning their conspiracy thinking.

Anyway, don't use Signal, Briar and Tor, they are shit-lib-CIA regime change tools. [meta: the last sentence is sarcastic]

I like this one: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-desert audio version of that book: https://archive.org/details/desertbyanonymous

This sounds like an extreme strong political believe you hold that does not allow any nuance.

I'm an anarchist, and there are many communists I get well along with, except for the authoritarian branch of communism.

default setting is that admins can easily inject their own key without user noticing it.

additional to that: gajim sends files over jingle without encryption in e2ee chats dino does not offer reliable e2ee for group chat. it is difficult to verify keys in conversations because these settings are hidden afaik.

So here is my question. Why?

The main reason is that the lead developers are Marxist-Leninists (aka tankies), and so they attract fellows tankies to join their platform.

Why people hold onto such believes varies from case to case, but I make the following observation:

Political positions are still widely understood as singular dichotomous (left/right), as extremes that oppose each other. If you don't like what is presented on the one site, you tend to choose what is opposing it. And so does this political compass also present one authoritarian position as a solution for another authoritarian position.

Many grown up in the so called west, have been grown up within a propaganda machine that presents itself as the protectorate for human right. As soon as you begin to research into post-colonialism, their war-crimes, their exploitation through capitalism you'll notice that it's nothing but a lie. And then you gonna look for answers why that is, and what alternatives there are.

The so called west has made lot's of campaigns against communism. While at this point you are well aware that "the west" spreads lies, you might start to study communism.

You've grown up in an nationalist reality. Nearly everything is divided among nations with top down command chains. Alternatives to organize society in large scale without such authoritarian tendencies are underrepresented. Even so there are many examples, you don't learn about them in school and you barley read about them in history books.

Conspiracy theories are attractive, as they present simplified reality that is easier to understand, offer often a clear defined enemy and a solution. They usually also offer an answer if challenged, that will continue to uphold the conspiracy thinking. Once you're in, it gonna be hard to break through. In terms of tankies, criticism of their ideology often result in answers like: "this is cia propaganda", "you are a shit lib".

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So apparently the admin of that instance is into "The Great White Brotherhood", some spiritual cult and theory.

While "white" here doesn't refer to skin color, it does reinforce the narrative: white = good and black = bad. And so even just that name as it is applied to contemporary reality, is part of an reality that enforces anti-black narratives which are related to skin color. And then "Brotherhood", I can't imagine that this means anything else then something about a protective force to patriarchy, ...but they are white, hence they are the good guys, so it's ok if they protect and reinforce patriarchy?

I'm not sure about the origin of that cult, but it got mentioned 18th in some book from someone called "Eckartshausen". But the idea first got populated by Alfred Percy Sinnett and Helena Blavatsky, yes this Helena Blavatsky that also helped the german nazis to build a spirituality that defines the "german white race" as superior.

So yes the "the great white brotherhood", is linked to white supremacy, but not of those skin-head typ, more those "New-Age" and esoteric hippies, where white-supremacy isn't like a goal, probably more a side effect caused by the lack of anti-racists and anti-classist analysis.

Anyway, that's also a characteristic of any major religion/cult that I'm aware of, nevertheless I think it's important to deconstruct it.

You use lots of ableist language. Without that I would like your post better.

why not use something else if they have an issue with lemmy?

There are lot of lies about communism but not every thing that comes anti-communist along is actually anti-communist.

It is most often directed at the authoritarian and totalitarian communists and gives a really bad image to any other communist, because unfortunate it often lumps it all together.