I've actually been trying to get on Telegram since you sent this. I don't want to give them my number, so I've been trying to use one of the temp ones, and it hasn't worked.
Then I saw this just a few minutes ago.
I don't like censored platforms. I don't like platforms that require my phone number because Goolag surveils me incessantly, which is why I do not carry my phone outside my home.
Signal?
Also, if u look into the ownership of that one u mentioned, well... look into relationship to foreign intel in the mid east. I'll supply details if u have issues finding that tidbit. They're all monitored, all subject eventually to spying, censorship, the entire gambit.
Promising tech in development is called Quortal, check it out.
I am looking into Qortal. You're right about the rest of them.
The phone number isn't a requirement, as u can turn that feature off. Sorry, just noticed this just now.
They require my number to install the software. That's like virginity, in that once I give it, I'm not getting it back.
That is an excellent point, just as this was an excellent article you wrote, here. I can't remember if that was necessary when I first installed it. Awesome that we have a very meagre few individuals still aware and raising alarm bells on these things!
The shit I talk to my normal friends about almost completely goes over their heads. Many are potentially smarter than I, but able to only digest one subject or two at a time, and not the extra large pies with all the toppings we (those from our select communities) routinely deliver in the normal course of conversation. Sadly
A lot of people feel that there is nothing they can do about any of the challenges we face, and that they have no chance of surmounting them. I can sympathize, but I don't allow all the problems of the world to be one big pile. When I do my best to take each one individually, there's usually something I can do to improve my chances for each separate one, or surmount it. Spiking food prices and looming shortages, perhaps even famine, is resolvable by gardening. In addition to overt gardens, adding some guerilla gardens in roadcuts, shady glades, or vacant lots adds security from overt gardens being seized, banned, or etc. Having a vertical farm in a sunny window or even in the basement under strip LEDs, enables food to be grown even if it's too dangerous to get out to a garden outside regularly, such as during draconian lockdowns or curfews. Having some solar panels or other power source enables those strip lights and an aquarium bubbler to be powered even if electricity prices go through the roof, or the supply is no longer sufficient from the grid. Using three of these methods concurrently enables me to have a pretty robust food security situation, which I strongly recommend.
I solve the surveillance problem of cell phones by not carrying one. Etc, etc. By breaking up the suite of problems we face, I create soluble bits and pieces. Individually resolved, together they reduce my vulnerability significantly compared to someone so demoralized they don't try to do anything because they can't fix everything, or even know for sure what everything they face is.
Nothing is perfect, but better is...well, better.
Inspriational super-quote of the day, brother!