Daniel Vavra having no clue about history and being racist.

Two of the reasons I’d never use it. The other is not wanting to support the Google monopoly.

Its use by neo-Nazis is well-documented. Perhaps it’s not a 100% sure sign on its own, as accurately noted by the ADL, but combined with the Black Sun, there’s no other interpretation.

OK, but what’s with the article author sporting the Black Sun shirt and Thor’s hammer necklace so beloved by Nazis?

Thanks. Makes more sense now. It’s this edition if purchasing on Steam. Would I have the New York and Haven Island DLC if I already own Hitman 1 & 2?

Not Part One then?

What’s the deal with the Hitman 3 DLC? Which version do I need to buy if I already own Hitman 1 and Hitman 2?

Fair enough! It’s a long read even with the existing posts in place.

Nice! Also of note may be the comments by the main Lemmy developer Dessalines, and by the lemmy.dbzer0.com owner. Perhaps in brackets after the “future” post, unless individual comments by notable people are out of scope.

It may be worth adding the new “Proposal for a weekly AskVegans sticky post” from !vegan@lemmy.world, as it says there’s a new moderator and implies that the community is not getting locked. The new lemmy.zip server update also dedicated a paragraph to the “fediverse moderation issues/drama”, with the admin in the comments confirming it’s in reference to the “vegan thread”.

So how do you start or join a secret chat on Windows?

The story of his persecution by the Russian government reiterated throughout the article was exposed to be a total lie last month. He secretly traveled to Russia over the years, including just before Telegram was unblocked in Russia. Everything points to his secret cooperation with the government.

I’ve never seen anyone use Telegram’s e2ee. Not even by the users outside the legal realm, to put it mildly. Not only is it opt-in but it also works in the mobile app only.

Well, entering Mastodon in the search bar of a search engine today shows that it’s even easier than it was during the big Twitter exodus. The first link is mastodon.social. Clicking that lands you on a page where Create an account is highlighted in blue. From there, it’s the standard signup process everyone is used to.

Edit: Rewrote the comment to focus on the actual flow today rather than anything speculative.

That may be true for someone just looking to sign up with no help, but if they come across a guide or if their friend helps them, then it’s easy.

Is there any relation between Bluesky and Dorsey now? Does he own any of it?

They did, but it’s nothing huge.

Mastodon allows you to transfer your followers when you migrate, so it’s not a big deal if you change your mind about the first instance you had chosen.

I won’t go into the specific channels as to not promote them or what they do but we can talk about one known example, which is how Bellingcat got to the FSB officers responsible for the poisoning of Navalny via their mobile phone call logs and airline ticket data. They used the two highly popular bots called H****a and the E** ** G**, which allow to get everything known to the government and other social networks on every citizen of Russia for about $1 to $5. They use the Telegram API and have been there for years. How do you moderate that? You don’t. You take it down as the illegal, privacy-violating, and doxing-enabling content that it is.

Edit: “Censored” the names of the bots, as I still don’t want to make them even easier to find.

It’s a street, not a changing booth. Also, I’m familiar with every charge against Durov and I personally have seen the illegal content I talked about. If it’s so easily accessible to the public and persists for years, it has nothing to do with privacy and there is no moderation - though his words also underscore the latter.