@debby @monocles @Stuxhost well, @delta / #deltaChat is not using #XMPP+#OMEMO (unlike #monoclesChat & #gajim) but #PGP/MIME on regular #eMail, which makes it way easier to setup in organizations as "nit yet another server needed" and also easier to comply with mandatory #archival laws in #business use-cases.

• #Session & #Signal, like #Telegram & #WhatsApp, do not have their #backend opensourced nor allow #SelfHosting and demand #PII like #PhoneNumbers for registration if not useage for no valid reason. Plus they are not just able but obviously willing to snitch on their users (something neither DeltaChat nor monocles chat demand or even can as both do 100% #SelfCustody of all the keys!)

• As for #sustainability, monocles is financed by #subscribers (they charge like €2 p.m. for mail & chat) and they can be paid completely anonymously (#Monero & #CashByMail!), whereas #Signal is a #MoneyBurningParty which engages in #Shitcoin-#Scams (see #MobileCoin!) for no valid reason…

@Sibshops not really, it keeps stable at the €250-ish mark, so it's simply a jump in value tuat seems persistent. Whereas any ML would spike it for a bit and/or go down afterwards...

• I don't have the necessary time nor resources to check for that, and given the rampant use of #Shitcoins and the fact that "Non-KYC Crypt-to-Crypto exchangers" have changing wallets as they don't want to tumble clean coins, it's really hard to evidence that.

If anything, #delisting|s of #Monero made it harder to do #AML & #CTF investigations since #Exchanges did keep record on the exact "coin" (like a Serial Number on a banknote), allowing for #cash-like tracing based off known date/time, wallet & coin correlation.

• Kinda how #LEA|s inject small amounts of cash into organized crime to track correlations.

@dave_andersen @AVincentInSpace personally I consider any "#KYC" a risk-factor, and @signalapp has proven their ability and willingness to restrict functionality (i.e. their #Shitcoin-#Scam #MobileCoin) based off said #PhoneNumbers (Cuban, Russian and North Korean Numbers were excluded) which are in fact #PII (even if one doesn't have to #ID for obtaining a #SIM, they are circumstantial PII)...

• They have neither "legitimate interest" nor legal mandate to collect said data (or to integrate a scammy Shitcoin for that matter) as the discontinuation of #ChatSecure / #TextSecure has eliminated the "technical necessity" to have those.

Either way they either have to yeet #Hegseth as client and/or stop collecting PII like PhoneNumbers - they gotta have to do something…

• As for #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec, I'd say #XMPP+#OMEMO remains the gold standard alongside #PGP/MIME...

#ITsec is a different story, but unlike #Signal these do not depend on a #PhoneNumber and work through @torproject / #Tor.

• And I've been using Tor for almost 15 years daily now...

@adisonverlice #TLDW; #MobileCoin is absolute #bs to the point that even #CryptoBros & #TechBros failed even acquiring it.

• Plus it's 100% #PreMined and hard-locked very proprprietary to #IntelSGX chips.

@debby @DroidPort personally, I think the "optics" of leaving the #Fediverse are more important and are seen as silent confirmation of valid criticism.

Cuz even if I'd be annoying the shit out of @protonprivacy (and I doubt that!) there are ample of tools for them like #muting and #blocking.

• Tools they'd inevitably have to use anywhere else too, regardless if #Shitter, #BrownSky, #NSAbook, etc. even if it's just to do #moderation as in reporting & blocking #Shitcoin-#Scammers and #bots pushing #phishing linksvunder their posts...

@adisonverlice yeah, @signalapp pushing a #Shitcoin-#Scam called #MobileCoin should already discredit them.

• #Cryptocurrency-Controversy aside, if they actually wanted to bloat #Signal with a #Wallet function*, the only good choice would've been #Monero.

Anything else is just #Shitcoins!

@europesays why would anyone want #Shitcoins that combine the #disadvantages of #fiat and #cryptocurrencies without any redeeming qualities?

• As a matter if fact, #Tether is merely pegged by a "#TrustMeBro!" promise and also has means to steal said #shitcoin from wallets under the pretense if #Embargo / #Samctions #compliance.

So why would anyone want that instead of #Monero???

@katrinakatrinka @digyoursoul OFC, take your time...

I just think Monero is the least worst #Crsptocurrency because it's not some #Shitcoin with artifical scarcity, long transaction times, high fees and #NFT garbage!

• In fact, it's inherently incompatible with #SmartContracts and #NFTs per design, so all the #CryptoBros hate it!

Given how much #PaymentProcessors like #PayPal can change and outside #SEPA there isn't a good & fast #WireTransfer system, it's growing in adoption.

• Espechally since it's the closest to digital #cash!

@BernieDoesIt @Catvalente similarly, people need to explore and use #Patreon alternatives.

• And if that means #SFW accounts and -Content lands on #Fansly and #OnlyFans then so be it ffs!!!

Pretty shure platforms allowing and endorsing #NSFW also accept SFW content…

• Again: #WhatYouAllowIsWhatWillContinue.

Worst-case y'all gotta learn how to use #Monero for once and get paid that way. There are payment providers like https://nowpayments.io that remove all the uncertainties and instant-convert to #fiat so you don't need to fiddle around with it or any #shitcoin|s!

Feel free to hate and block me if you must, but the reality sometimes is that simple and won't change just because it's inconvenient to admit the #Enshittification happens!

• #Apple rent-seeking 30% would get me to press charges against Apple and Patreon for #theft, but I've got neither a Patreon nor a Patrons on it!

@cryptadamist Seriously, whoever pays in a #Shitcoin like #Ethereum should be noted down as "criminally incompetent"!

@signalapp no it's not.

• Otherwise #OrganizedCrime would choose #Signal so hard, you'd be shutdown within weeks by the #FBI and @Mer__edith would be forced to "pull a #LavaBit" and face jailtime for obstruction of justice or snitch on users!

Being a #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution subject to #CloudAct makes you inherently vulnerable by your own choice and thus trivial to shutdown compared to real #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the keys and true #decentralization as well as #SelfHosting (i.e. #PGP/MIME [see @delta / #deltaChat et. al.] and #XMPP+#OMEMO [see @monocles / #monoclesChat et. al.]!)

• Plus neither of those shill #Shitcoin-#Scams like #MobileCoin!

And don't even get me started on you collecting #PII (espechally #PhoneNumbers) for no valid reason, (thus violating #GDPR & #BDSG)...

• Not to mention relying ob #charity and being a #VCmoneyBurningParty isn't sustainable to begin with!

But yeah, I'll be patient to shout "#ToldYaSo" to your annoying cult of fanboys!

@Andromxda @mollyim no it's not bs and fanboying @signalapp isn't going to change that.

If #Signal was secure it would be the #1 comms tool of organized crime...

• Yet I've only seen #TechIlliterates shill it.

Real professionals use #SelfHosting capable, fully #FLOSS'd solutions like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO.

• Again: Demanding #PII like #PhoneNumbers and shilling a #Shitcoin-#Scam (#MobileCoin) makes Signal literally untrustworthy and if it doesn't for you then maybe your standards are just too low...

It's just me reading the room: Cuz #ComSec isn't done woth "JuSt UsE sIgNaL!" and everyone who claims so without pointing out #OpSec, #InfoSec & #ITsec is BSing hard.

• The cold hard truth is that #TechLiteracy is irreplaceable and the only solution to it is to actually teach normies how to "get gud" with stuff like PGP.

Fortunatelty, @thunderbird and @tails_live / @tails / #Tails and many other tools make that easier than ever before.

• So rather than vomiting insults against my intellect in my mentions, go to the next @cryptoparty@mastodon.earth / #Cryptoparty / @cryptoparty@chaos.social and lend a hand.

@signalapp It's not #disinfo when one points out that you demand #PII aka. #PhoneNumbers from Users and that is literally a architectural vulnerability, alongside your #proprietary & #Centralized #Infrastructure.

• #Signal being a #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #Solution is literally the reason why I consider it #insecure.

Not to mention the lack of @torproject / #Tor support with an #OnionService or the willingness to fulfill #cyberfacist "Embargoes" or shilling a #Shitcoin #Scam named #MobileCoin!

• #KYC is the illicit activity!!!

And don't get me started on the #cyberfacism that is #CloudAct.

• If you were secure, criminals would've used your platform so hard, it would've been shutdown like #EncroChat and #SkyECC.

I may nit have allvthe.evidence yet, but #Signal stenches like #ANØM: #Honeypot-esque!

@crazy_pony when @signalapp isn't being run as a #VCMoneyBurningParty and they take #InfoSec, #OpSec, #ComSec & #ITsec serious and stop shilling the #Shitcoin #Scams that is #MobileCoin!

For everyone else, there's #XMPP+#OMEMO (see @monocles / #monoclesChat) & #PGO/MIME (see @delta / #deltaChat)…

@fj I still think @signalapp has fundamental flaws like demanding #PII (#PhoneNumbers can't be obtained anonymously around the globe and are trivial to track down to devices and thus users), being subject to #CloudAct as an unnecessary & 100% avoidable risk as well as #Shitcoin-#Scam shilling (#MobileCoin) and it's #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider nature that makes it inferior to real #E2EE with #SelfCustody like #PGP/MIME & #XMPP+#OMEMO!