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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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Been a solid messaging app for the past couple years I've been using it. Unlike Whatsapp, it's much easier to control its notifications and media shared
As an old user of textsecure they've been solid for a surprising amount of time. Back in the day (ca like 2013?) me and all my friends would use CyanogenMod which at the time had textsecure built in to the ROM. It used an early version of the Signal encryption protocol layered onto plain SMS messages, and the ROM support meant I didn't even need to install a special app - it would intercept all incoming and outgoing SMSes at the OS level and transparently encrypt and decrypt each one based on who it was coming from or going to. Since messages were direct, the textsecure servers afaik were only used to host public keys.
Also since it was layered onto SMS, we had a handful of fun occurrences of re-flashing ROMs and forgetting to re-register and then we'd get gibberish texts from our friends whose phones still had our old key.