I left my final mainstream social media with the Reddit API debacle back in 2023. And before that, I left Facebook and Twitter in 2018.

It’s not my bot. It’s a bot somebody else created and I just use it.

I use a repost bot to keep up with the Monero reddit but most of the time I find that I’m not interested enough to actually click the link to go to the original post on reddit and so most of the time I just stay here. I deleted my account during the API issues back in June of 2023 and have not had an account since then and do not plan on going back as I really enjoy it here.

Encrypt everything as violence does not win over math and the US should go fuck a duck. I can’t wait until Monero grows big enough and they lose their dominance over the reserve currency status.

I also hear the word volentarist for those who think all human interaction should be voluntary and not by force. I think people like Amir Taaki might be just a little bit extreme for me, but I still agree with most of what he talks about. Cody Wilson is also another person who highly interests me because of the liberator pistol. The Monero community is extremely interesting to me because of their views.

That could be because it seems like the line between anarchist and libertarian is quite thin, especially at times. Pretty sure I fall into the libertarian side of that camp because I do think that there may possibly just perhaps possibly be a need for as small and impotent a government as you can possibly create. Like maybe neighborhood watch level or something like that.

I have not heard property is theft. I’ve heard taxation is theft, but property rights are something anarchists really admire. So I don’t get where that one’s coming from.

Monero has view keys for exactly this reason, so that if you need to make a transaction public for like an audit or something, you can do so. But on the protocol level, absolutely everything is always private.

Some wallets shielding their transactions by default is still not nearly as strong as everything being shielded by default at the protocol level, but they couldn’t have that because then they would not be on exchanges.

I’m glad they mentioned Monero in the article, but sad that they mentioned it alongside Zcash since Zcash is not private by default and not many people opt into the privacy and Zcash has shown willingness to be bad to their users by helping exchanges. Primarily because they are run by the Electric Coin Company, which is registered in the United States, and therefore they have to obey the laws of the United States. So, Zcash is not a good option.

That is correct. Any cell phone sold in the United States by law is supposed to be able to dial 911 no matter whether they have a SIM card inserted or not and no matter whether they have service on a SIM card or not and also no matter whether one specific carrier in your area has no signal it will use the others instead. You may be a Verizon customer, but if you dial 911 and an AT&T tower picks up the call first, the AT&T network will serve that call instead.

Monero, SimpleX

Well the cellular network has voice over LTE or voice over NR, whether the data side is turned on or not. So unless it’s an airplane mode with Wi-Fi turned on and you go out of range of the Wi-Fi, it should just switch it from the Wi-Fi over to the cellular network.

Sounds like it’s just switching the call to the cellular network. But I could be wrong.

Nice

Use Monero.

I think you could use long-term identities online as a form of ID based on trust scores. If I go up to ten people and say I am shortwave surfer, then those people can all say yes, I have met shortwave surfer, and he is the same person to all ten of us, etc.

Sounds to me like you got swept up in all the hype.

Op clearly forgot the /s.

If you think just because you live in a supposedly democratic nation that they are not doing these exact same things, you are either naive, ignorant, or stupid. Ignorance can at least be fixed by research.

Define larger groups because I know for a fact that it can do chats of up to at least 1,000 people because I’m in two group chats that have that many on SimpleX.