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But they would expand their plant based section to facilitate a growing market, making it exponentially easier to go vegan. There must be some point past which their meat division would cost more to run than it makes

While I agree that direct action is more immediate and economically challenges the murder machine I wouldnt go as far as to say we cant buy our way out of it, there would be a tipping point at some point at which even a murder company would have to start investing more in their plant based lines just because that would now be where the majority of their profits come from. Where I agreee is that liberation cannot come fast enough for the victims so we need to be taking the boldest most impactful actions we can right now, so I think our disagreement is purely technical we probably agree completely in practise its better to buy from 100% vegan companies where possible, and its good to [redacted] murder infrastructure

Because anyone that contacts myusername@mydomain will know they are talking to the same person as a third party that messages that same user, so if those contacts are compromised then a third party could compromise your conversations by correlating them both to you even if the conversation was encrypted. And quantum matters now bc state and capital is hoovering up encrypted data in a strat called Harvest Now Decrypt Later bc they think theyll be able to decrypt it all for cheap in a few short years so its worth holding onto bc storage is cheap. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now%2C_decrypt_later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UrdExQW0cs

Ive noticed a couple well upvoted comments relating to the the simplex VC funding so rather than repeat myself I will link the response I wrote already in this comment section https://vegantheoryclub.org/post/916089/1559879

Is there any way to use xmpp such that it is post quantum encrypted at least? Even so it has persistent user ids right? That would still be a simplex advantage

I think you will be interested in the whitepaper, I will append it to the OP https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protocol/overview-tjr.md I've read it and it satisfied me.

please see my comment above and the linked blogpost from evgeny

As an anarchocommmunist I hope they go non profit too, but the protocol is robust and decentralised enough that I'm not worried whatevever the company does it can just be forked. Look at Simple Mobile Tools for andoird, an open source project that sold out to a data harvesting company, within a few months it was forked and now you can get the exact same apps under the name Fossify. And then theres the example of Redhat a forprofit company that "sells linux" by providing techniocal consultation to large businesses. Idk anyone who would say that redhat linux is enshittified bc redhat is forprofit. Evgeny the lead dev has said several times this is the kind of model they want to pursue and they recognise privacy and anonymity is their only selling point, they are into right wing conspiracy theories too so they have an ideological reason not to sell out like that they actually believe in the right to privacy and anonymity. You may be interested in evgenys blog posts about this contention https://simplex.chat/blog/20240516-simplex-redefining-privacy-hard-choices.html

This is an accurate list of the cons, but my title clearly states I am solely talking about privacy/anonymity goals. Of particular interest was the second bullet there I knew there was a timeout but I didnt think it was that short I will keep that in mind and perhaps suggest it be increased to like at least a couple months. Anyway yes simplex is not feature compatible with signal and matrix. that was not the point of the post. Imo though it IS good enough enough to replace bare bones direct messaging with trusted contacts as I have been using it like that for about 6 months now and it has only gotten more stable since then.