# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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# Usage:
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/users View list of users and latest twt date.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/twt View all twts.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/mentions?uri=:uri View all mentions for uri.
# https://watcher.sour.is/api/plain/conv/:hash View all twts for a conversation subject.
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# Options:
# uri Filter to show a specific users twts.
# offset Start index for quey.
# limit Count of items to return (going back in time).
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# twt range = 1 10
# self = https://watcher.sour.is/conv/kci4cna
@ocdtrekkie yeah, and now that it looks like Edward Snowden, who told people they should use Signal, has probably been a Russian asset for awhile, I'd delete that thing immediately if I still had it.
@abucci 😳 I _thought_ Edward Snowden was on the people's side and on the side of privacy and human rights?! 😳
@abucci 😳 I _thought_ Edward Snowden was on the people's side and on the side of privacy and human rights?! 😳
@prologic Putin just gave Snowden Russian citizenship. The journalist, Glenn Greenwald, who broke the Snowden story originally has been a Russian propaganda mouthpiece for quite some time (besides being an awful human being generally by the looks of things). Smells very fishy to me. I mean, these things are rarely black and white--I'm glad to know some of the things that Snowden revealed--but I think the mission of some of these folks is to destroy the US's credibility, not help people or inform people.
and I mean, my calculation about information security is pretty conservative. Snowden left the US for Russia, a country that has been actively hostile to us for a long time, and eventually became a citizen there. He recommends people use a "secure" app whose CEO wanted to turn it into some crytocurrency thing--crypto being a main way Russia is using to circumvent economic sanctions. Signal also eats your messages and makes it difficult for you to get them out again. This is just a bouquet of bad stuff--country that actively hacks the US, cryptocurrency, and walled garden. None of it is a smoking gun, but it sure smells funny to me. Especially when there are alternatives that have none of that stink circulating around them.
Very interesting... 😳 I'm _really_ hoping we get that NLnet funding soon™ Gotta build better alternatives for the community, by the community with no BS and ulterior motives 👌
Very interesting... 😳 I'm _really_ hoping we get that NLnet funding soon™ Gotta build better alternatives for the community, by the community with no BS and ulterior motives 👌
If the Snowden revelations were a Russian operation to harm the credibility of the US government, it failed because not many people cared back then and most people today, even if they *know* what's going on, accept it as a normal part of life.
I think the more likely explanation is that Putin let Snowden stay to rub it in our face and recently gave him citizenship for the same reason. Anything is possible, though.
I'm still not a fan of Signal, but it's for other reasons.