# Messenger choice

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/messenger-choice/34305
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2025-12-30T19:32:49Z
**Posts:** 67
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## Post 58 by @maqp — 2026-01-02T23:26:53Z

> [@anon12918199](#):
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> Who cares if a crazy mofo goes on an anti-vax tirade on twitter? Is his software still good? That’s all that matters.

It’s a big world with big players driving their politics through their works. Three guesses why Elon “overpaid” for Twitter. He now has reach to feed his shit to the screen of 400 million people. What you support is what you enable to shape the world. The thing is, you might have aligned interests wrt privacy, but when you feed the post-factual system and its advocators, don’t be surprised when you’re the next meal. It won’t happen through SimpleX. Probably. But what could go wrong supporting wrong people.

> [@anon43138714](#):
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> Your epistemic competence on one area always determines your epistemic competence in everything.

Obviously not. But usually people who are passionate about something attend university to learn from the best in their field.

> [@anon43138714](#):
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> The only way a person can be an expert (or proficient in something) is by having an academic degree on that thing.

Yeah I’m sure there’s plenty of great armchair heart surgeons and structural engineers. Cryptography isn’t a field where you can fake it till you make it either.

> [@anon43138714](#):
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> we can’t use these arguments against anyone’s credibility because they are simply crappy arguments.

It’s a good heuristic usually, and it’s a good heuristic here considering the SimpleX CEO’s stubborn infantile attitude towards communicating the project’s threat model that deviates from the marketing, and treating the truth as a fine print hidden deep in the documentation, and then expanding to the world of web3.

> [@anon43138714](#):
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> These are widely acknowledged to be wrong

Citation needed. Every run-of-the-mill charlatan of this post-factual age peddling their pseudoscience says the same thing.

> [@anon43138714](#):
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> especially on computer sciences where practical experience is so overwhelmingly important

The makers and doers attitude can create new stuff but you’re not going to beat 80 years of work by the academic community on your own. We stand on the shoulders of giants. You can build your own knowledge base from scratch but it’s a long, long, climb.

> [@anon43138714](#):
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> At the end of the day what matters is that the software was designed properly and that it does what it claims,

Well that’s just it, [it doesn’t](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/simplex-vs-cwtch-who-is-right/19256/112).

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