I didn’t wanna sound like a conspiracy theorist, but as soon as the news dropped last week about this, I did have the thought, “Maybe this is all a stunt to try and get Signal banned.”

These are the desktop ads that are already there, they’re bringing the quests (that, for now, have an off switch) to mobile

You are right, but also, I think it’s okay to take the small victories where they are. They shouldn’t have to be applauded for doing the bare minimum, but when this bare minimum is a big middle finger to the administration I’ll look the other way

Agreed. I still see people (including my friends, despite my multiple attempts to explain what’s actually going on) that just go “Wait, but that violates the Constitution!” Like, no shit, dude, they know, and they do not give a fuck, especially if no one is actually going to punish them for it

Do you have any suggestions for starting out on Mastodon? I know for a fact that I won’t be able to get my friends to move there, and that’s whatever, I guess. I’m not against meeting new people and would love to give it a spin.

Joined up yesterday and have been pretty happy so far. Have been looking for an alternative so i could ditch reddit since the API changes and had no idea this place existed until i saw a random thread yesterday