vitalliik (vitalliik)

I am capitulating, I will call Twitter "X" from now on. "Tweet" becomes a generic term for messages on any platform that prioritizes short-form text content with X-like UX, similar linguistically to "kleenex". Usage guide: * "Vitalik is only tweeting on Farcaster and Lens this year, isn't it awful how much of an ivory tower elitist he is?" * "Did you see Donald Trump's shocking new racist tweet on Truth Social?" * "Back when I sent that in 2019, it was a tweet, and by this new definition it still is, but now we can also refer to it ex-post as an X post" "Crypto Twitter" can remain as a set phrase, similarly to how Peking Duck is still called Peking Duck, though of course it would be funny if more people called it CryptoX (aka CrypTox). (This tweet was sent simultaneously on X, Farcaster and Lens via Firefly)

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One reason (not the only reason) why I see people sometimes hesitating to switch more fully to Signal, is that they got into a habit of using Signal as their "high-priority, clutter-free" inbox and Telegram as their "everyone else talk to me" inbox, and thus hesitate to make Signal "cluttered" again. Things that I find work for me in this situation is: * Signal now has a folders feature: you can right-click (if on phone, tap-and-hold) on a contact and an "Add to folder" option appears * Using *another* app (eg. Session, Simplex) as your high-signal inbox, this way support projects that are trying to achieve even stronger privacy properties Also, start to build a habit: when someone contacts you on Telegram, ask: "are you on Signal? I am «username> there", and move that conversation over to Signal.

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I love how people refer to quantum-resistant cryptography as "pq" when actually it's all about moving away from having to juggle F_p and F_q.

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Good speech by Cory Doctorow Let's repeal anti-circumvention laws. Nothing should be updateable without the user's permission, nothing critical should be a black box.

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