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Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by vlod »

nocobot wrote: post #3

can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?

Maybe it's this tweet: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848

From the tweet:

EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be."

There is a video of her speaking, which I find hard to translate.

Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by poisonborz »

For adversaries, it's just easier to take over tech companies than good willed folks to build them. Going on, the community should just not trust anything that is centralised. Implementing that well, lack of profit and fatigue are the great challenges.

Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by probably_jesus »

huslage wrote: post #17
nocobot wrote: post #3

can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?

DHH only has strong feelings. Katherine Maher is a great CEO and leader and has been taken out of context in order to isolate her and make her unsupportable by people who claim to not like cancel culture. The whole thing is ridiculous.

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Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by sdwr »

lrvick wrote: post #4

1. MobileCoin premines 250m coins 2. Moxie is paid for being on their board 3. Moxie directs non-profit Signal to integrate MobileCoin 4. MobileCoin offers 50% of their premine for sale. 5. Signal/Mobilecoin news spikes price to $60 6. Moxie steps down as CEO of Signal but remains on board 7. Mobilecoin price today is $0.09 8. Moxie is no longer involved at Signal This is why we need decentralization.

I remember watching a conference video featuring Moxie - he was the golden child, and there was an older guy saying "We've been doing cryptography for so long... how do we get paid?"

Sounded very much like a inner circle backroom deal kind of moment.

Guess they figured it out!

Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by [deleted] »

flooow wrote: post #7
lrvick wrote: post #4

1. MobileCoin premines 250m coins 2. Moxie is paid for being on their board 3. Moxie directs non-profit Signal to integrate MobileCoin 4. MobileCoin offers 50% of their premine for sale. 5. Signal/Mobilecoin news spikes price to $60 6. Moxie steps down as CEO of Signal but remains on board 7. Mobilecoin price today is $0.09 8. Moxie is no longer involved at Signal This is why we need decentralization.

> This is why we need decentralization. That's an interesting interpretation. I read it as 'all cryptocurrencies are scams'.

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Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk »

lrvick wrote: post #9
flooow wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This is why we need decentralization. That's an interesting interpretation. I read it as 'all cryptocurrencies are scams'.

Not all cryptocurrencies are scams, not all traffic on Tor is CSAM, and not matrix messages are spam. Some of us use all of these decentralized systems daily for their actual intended use cases of sovereignty and privacy. Things like money and messaging are too important to a functioning society to allow any single party to control. We need -actually- decentralized money and -actually- decentralized communication. Mo…

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Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by 0xy »

ignoramous wrote: post #6

DHH's "I trust Meta over Signal because a board member at Signal is woke" is utter content-farming clickbaity dishonest discourse for someone of his skill and intelligence (given the guarantees inherent in the Signal protocol and its opensource nature) and his previously stated stance against cancel culture [0]. This quest for influence seems to break people's brains in weird ways. [0] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/…

Her work history is indeed extremely concerning, but you're probably being downvoted because you invented a fake quote. Double quotes means a literal quote, he never said that. You invented it.

Re: I'm no longer involved at Signal

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Post by htk »

vlod wrote: post #21
nocobot wrote: post #3

can someone explain why dhh has such strong feelings about katherine maher?

Maybe it's this tweet: https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1780929268949614848 From the tweet: EXCLUSIVE: Katherine Maher says that she abandoned a "free and open" internet as the mission of Wikipedia, because those principles recapitulated a "white male Westernized construct" and "did not end up living into the intentionality of what openness can be." There is a video of her speaking, which I find hard to trans…

Thank you for the link. Now I have enough to form an opinion about her.
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