https://lemmy.world/comment/17819080

https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1936818525915513091

https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1872333085179871696

https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1882531429546074480

https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1870950830654030109

https://xcancel.com/epoberezkin/status/1881832239186759841

As well as the many retweets

Whether it's SimpleX, Signal, or even Protonmail, why do so many tech normies seem so averse to anything "encrypted."

If you have a choice between encrypted and non-encrypted communications, why lean toward favoring non-encrypted? Makes no sense.

A video channel I like watching, called "Predator Poachers," features Alex Rosen catching online predators who try to lure people who are too young for them to be talking to. I've noticed that many of the bad guys he catches use apps like Telegram, Signal, Viber, Session, etc., to conduct their evil activities and trade evil images. (I've never heard SimpleX mentioned, but I keep listening for it! It's pretty much my favorite messenger.)

But when I use SimpleX or Signal or XMPP, it's not that I'm doing evil -- it's that I'm talking to my wife about plans, or sharing passwords, or griping about something at work, or talking to my brother about politics or religion, or sending pics of vacation or food or a special beer to a friend. Just nor