The next sentence is the most important:

However, you can never be 100% sure and after the fact it’s impossible to prove with certainty that was the cause….but it made us wonder.

lol

Okay first things first Jack Dorsey is a tool

The US government / CIA did in fact develop the protocol back in the day, with the goal of helping people in China and other countries message securely, probably with ulterior motives.

But the protocol itself is open source, and you can use it without any affiliation with the US government.

The claim " It looks almost as if big tech in the US is not allowed to build its own encryption protocols that would be independent of government interference 🐕‍🦺" is therefore so stupid it almost invalidates everything else being said because the person writing is either an idiot or purposely misrepresenting the facts.

Not having reproducible builds is definitely weird though. Does anybody have more information on that?

start a meme group. People may not want to install a chat app to talk to you, but they don’t want to miss out on juicy memes.

this strategy worked for a few of my friends at least.

in some circles yeah.

In Germany it actually became famous because it allowed for huge groups and it’s where covid misinformation breeding grounds took off. People thought you were a nutjob if you had telegram lol.

Which, while that is the dumbest reason to reject a chat app, at least meant that Signal was able to get more popular with uhhh smarter folks.

if you trust meta, then no, they can’t see your messages either way. But you have to trust them blindly… signal is better

I’ve never heard of DNSCrypt. What supposedly makes it better? DoH works fine and is the best way to “hide” DNS traffic as far as I can tell.

DoH is better than DoT imo because it is not distinguishable from HTTPS traffic by an outsider and thus harder to block/mess with.

QUIC uses UDP?