I know that Signal is the normie tier "privacy" app, but it's a nonstarter for me because it requires a phone number. I've been using SimpleX, but for some reason my messages are taking forever to get through. I think it's an issue with their servers. Regardless, I need a privacy oriented app that actually works. Does anyone have any recommendations?
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Just to confirm I've had the exact same issues with signal and as near as I can work out it's a classic open source thing where certain hardware isn't supported. No idea why that would cause sending message issues but it seems to be the case that this bug happens on some phones rather than others and it didn't matter what I did to reset everything it wouldn't work.
Unfortunately, they're clamping down hard on privacy these days, my best recommendation would be to go full glowie and make use of burner phones and numbers. Keep normie stuff separate and use that for whatever then have burner phones to stay truly private. Fun fact, I've also had hardware issues in the past with other open source software including Linux distros, so it's a thing, don't let anyone tell you otherwise, sometimes you can just be really unlucky.
thoughts on the minds.com chat feature? I barely dip my toe into this stuff, but it seems to work on windows/linux/android just fine.
Minds is on it's last legs generally and is clearly operated by a skeleton crew of barely functional retards who keep breaking everything and my money is on them looking to offload the project on a rich bagholder that doesn't know any better. Avoid anything to do with that site like the plague, I treat it as lolcow material, it's sad though because it's got a community of pretty decent people on it for the most part.
That's a shame, I like the site. I mean, at least the code is open source I guess, so someone can spin it off at some point...but still...
...I suppose bitchute will disappear into irrelevance as well eventually. I still think of them as the little video platform that could, but they don't get nearly the number of hitpieces they used to...
Bitchute made the mistake of operating in the UK as far as I'm aware which is stupid for any tech company to do in the day and age if they value having any kind of control over their own content. I rant about it a lot but things are going to get really bad with the speech laws here and they have an absolute hard on for policing the internet because they see internet podcasters as the number one enemy to the political class and their hegemony.
Also yes, I quite liked the Minds site itself too, it got a community it didn't deserve, but it seems that rather like some of the communities here people prop this shit up and they have no interest in even doing light moderation.