Added: Nostr is a platform for developing decentralized apps. The most popular app currently is a decentralized version of Twitter.
Nostr is an acronym: Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay
5 minute video explaining Nostr
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Some research on Telegram from https://kremlingram.org/ :
With its 800M+ users, Telegram is one of the worldās largest messengers and news-reading apps. It is also the most opaque of the big tech companies.
Telegram positions itself as a free speech heaven and a privacy focused messaging app. However, both statements are misleading.
Telegram is proven to be insecure for communication. Its lack of moderation had been used by Russia, ISIS, Hamas, and other terrorist groups to spread their messages to the world.
Telegram is founded and being built by a team of Russian engineers and entrepreneurs, now mostly based in Dubai. It is still one of the most used apps in Ukraine, despite the war with Russia.
Thereās plenty of indirect evidence pointing at Telegramās close ties to the Kremlin ā from personal connections, to history of relations, sources of funding, statements by government officials, and general lack of transparency.
The fact that Telegram itself claims it has āNo connection to Russiaā only makes this worse.
Our group investigates these connections based on open data and provides the findings to public and policymakers.
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Medvedev is enjoying this:
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Durov is a ālive playerā - so the truth is probably very complex and yet to be seen.
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I have avoided joining or even reading all (anti-)social media to date. I use google products as little as possible - with an eye towards de-monitizing them - and have allowed my gmail account to lie fallow.
However, I am presently considering creating a Telegram account in support of Durov. Beyond telling the French government what I think of them, I doubt I will be an active user. Iām hoping merely enrolling translates into support in some fashion.
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Durov speculation:
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I created a Telegram account in 2021 as a replacement for Twitter and Whatās App (owned by Facebook)
Twitter has improved since Elon took over and renamed it X but I still use Telegram for messaging and public groups related to Bitcoin, private chat groups and public channels for news and independent journalists (similar to RSS feeds).
Trump has a Telegram channel that is essentially a copy of his Truth Social and X feed.
Here is Tucker Carlson interview with Pavel Durov, April 2024:
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Yes. I listened to the entire thing earlier today. He is a classy guy with principles based in individual liberty and free expression of ideas; hence, he is a mortal threat to tyrants, like those (for the moment) in charge of France. When, in about 2 generations, the 5th republic is replaced by the Islamic State occupying the landmass formerly known as France - there will be minima change in the degree of permitted expression.
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Edit: Mystery girl
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I wonder why all the countries in the West donāt arrest the CEOs of the various communications companies. I am fairly certain Verizon and ATT are used by terrorist groups, drug dealers and all sorts of nasty people.
They should jail the makers of phones which are used by all the nasty groups.
Isnāt this perfect? The communication system used by the bad guys is not secure. A logical person would want to encourage its use.
How does the transparency of Google, Facebook and X compare to Telegram? In place of stating something as if it is fact, a comparison would be useful to back up the claim.
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Given she has a following on social media, she is slightly more mysterious than Taylor Swift.
If you want to make someone out to seem like an international spy that was secretly moving about, you call his companion mystery girl.
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Breaking Googleās grip on Chrome is actually a very smart thing to do.
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Google executive Lee-Anne Mulholland issued a statement condemning the DOJās alleged proposal, asserting that it pushes āa radical agenda that goes far beyond the legal issues in this case.ā The company maintains that forcing the sale of Chrome, along with potential measures targeting its AI, Android operating system, and data usage, would be detrimental to American technological leadership at a critical juncture.
How is it American technology? Does it provide some benefit to the US that isnāt available to say Australia? It seems to me it is a US registered company that provides its technology to the world which is fine, but not an argument that makes me sympathetic because I am a US citizen that feels that I would lose something if another US company owned Chrome.
I donāt use Google for search, but I have heard various people recently explain how bad it is getting. Not from a political point of view, but from it being useful. It sounds like it returns hits based on advertising dollars. Instead of sort by relevance, it sorts by who is the highest revenue source for Google.
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No idea if this is right, or just muckraking.
The Man That Destroyed Google Search
In this episode, Ed Zitron tells you the disgraceful story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Googleās former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to the outright decay of the most important website on the internet.
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Itās true, and heās out:
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Is anyone here still using Google search?
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On occasion and only for technical stuff. For just about anything else itās a dumpster fire, bordering on useless.
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