Things are heating up. Millions of people are taking to the streets against Trump's rising authoritarianism. Communities around the US are organizing to defend against ICE raids, to protest Israeli genocide, for mutual aid, and for other forms of fighting fascism. Signal can help people safely organize in all of
SimpleX is run by a Trump apologist and “white genocide” believer who believes the protests are fake and/or literally Stalin.
Edit: “all child abuse is horrible. But…” Evgeny is especially concerned about “genocide of young white girls” specifically, wondering “can Elon Musk help?”
Idk why it’s always assholes coming up with good software (shoutout to the lemmy devs lol) but simplex is a great messenger nevertheless. I sure as hell won’t donate to that guy though, like ever.
Can all of this compromise the SimpleX protocol in any way?
Nope. To add a little context, imagine that someone who uses Lemmy (which is well known to be developed by a team of people not everyone agrees with) to crosspost the same articles to infinity told everyone not to use a piece of well regarded and audited open source privacy software because it’s main developer has sided with US republicans.
I kind of figured with the X in the name. (I’m only half joking… But yikes)
Fml why.