{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"Skipper (npub12r…l8ty9)","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub12rrvutnfeu9677d4yjytypqccjn0njnm6zkx2j6xyn2uqfw02ldsrl8ty9","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"Did you know nostr:nprofile1qqsvnx99ww0sfall7gpv2jtz4ftc9v6wevgdd7g4hh7awkpfvwlezugpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0chkv5c now has a blockchain/shitcoin built in (called Flux)?\n\nhttps://simplex.chat/blog/20241210-simplex-network-v6-2-servers-by-flux-business-chats.html#simplex-chat-and-flux-improve-metadata-privacy-in-simplex-network )\n\nDid you know they've also started doing \"content moderation\"—blocking users, groups and 3rd party servers?\n\nhttps://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat/blob/821f034d18930c5c32d1c010a72bff15775b9337/docs%2Frfcs%2F2024-12-30-content-moderation.md\n\nYeah, so far it's only to stop CSAM distribution but we all know how that's a slippery slope. The good old \"Think of the children\" tactic. If there's a method to ban, block or censor, it will be used and ABUSED.\n\nSimpleX Chat may have good #privacy but it's not decentralized, neither censorship-resistant. They also seem too concerned with complying with Google/Apple stores—“(...)there are requirements we have to comply with that exist outside of law, e.g. requirements of application stores.”\n\nI also found out they are getting funded by VCS such a Village Global ( https://www.villageglobal.vc/ ), which have backers such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Anne Wojcicki and others.\n\nhttps://simplex.chat/blog/20240814-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v6-private-routing-new-user-experience.html#the-past-investment-from-village-global\n\nThis is not freedom tech. I'm out. DYOR.\n"}