This app’s developers have been saying some incredibly questionable things about its development and availability, which I would warn people makes it sound A LOT like a honeypot. A WHOLE LOT like a honeypot.
I will now exit stage left and allow you to dismiss me as wacko.
Well, time to make more of these apps that all feed to a central database outside the US.
Needs to be distributed. Single points of failure, be them people or tools, are always a mistake.
Exactly. Making a closed source, iOS-only app when you’re allegedly trying to help the largest number of at-risk people makes no sense…
The developer chose the correct platform for that then. It’s an apple only app.
His excuse? Android requires him to store databases of user IDs, but Apple does it themselves so it’s more “private”. There are tons of opensource push notification platforms available on Android that you can sideload. But seems like the developer wants the limelight than anything.
Also my honeypot senses are tingling.
Even if it wasn’t a honey pot, it IS a honey pot as the DOJ will just subpoena all pushes sent to all devices via it with some lame excuse that the courts will approve.
All the privacy claims were complete BS. Apple will roll over if given a warrant.
Everything about this app is mega sus yep. Should have open sourced it then this wouldnt have happened.
The number one thing that makes this app potentially effective is reach. You don’t build a debase big enough to be worthwhile with a side loaded android app, certainly not in a short period of time.
Do we know when this will potentially be ready?
A week ago or something. This is how I found out about the system: https://fiftyfiftyonearizona.org/2025/06/i-finally-have-a-minimum-viable-product-for-my-ice-reporting-system/
Ooh there ya go. I knew there had to be some actually good approaches to this problem :)
To he clear this isnt me. But I am from AZ.
Yeye i didnt assume that. Sadly finding matrix related projects is close to impossible in my experience, because the name is so absurdly generic. They really should have gone with something more search engine optimized when they decided to rebrand.
Unfortunately.
There’s a Microsoft product named Matrix Synapse, which is funny as hell. But you probably knew that.
Rights need to be exercised
GOP: Rights need to be exorcised
Leave the US, now, if you can. Otherwise, find someone outside to publish your code I guess.
What a nightmare.
Please stop telling my team to break the line. Look for resources at home first. Please only leave if there is literally no way to stay and help. I understand that’s a thing. I am disabled, but can teach, deploy, and run disposable coms. We also need people running relief potlucks and doing research, and creative communications.
Anyway, what country doesn’t have a far right political party and a drawer of serial offenses on indiginous people and POC? Not Canada. None of Europe. Not Japan or Australia.
Mate it’s not a competition but if it were, your country is on the top 5.
I’m refering to the competition between the nazis who want to criminalize and execute all the queer, colourful, and disabled folks, and any functioning stripe of anti-fascists, if that clears things up. It’s between people who want a free license to hatecrime, their apologizers and everyone else.
I can recommend some light reading if you’re still confused about what’s happening.
At no point in this post am I sarcastic about anything, just to be explicit.
Nah, cowards run away. If one has the means to leave, one has the means to fight.
That coward’s name? Albert Einstein.
Democracy won the last war against fascism because people with the skills and talent needed to fight them left, both taking those skills away and using them against their origin. If they’d stayed in Germany they’d have either been forced to work for the nazis or been prevented from doing anything. People with skills and talent NEED to leave.
You mean money. It takes money to emigrate. I guess skillled and talented people without money can just die.
This is a despicable take.
Strawman much? I know better than to engage with such a disingenuous post, but I’m going to anyway.
It’s not about what people DESERVE. Nobody DESERVES to suffer or stay somewhere they don’t want to and I would love for everyone to be able to get where they want. But it’s about the greater good. Everybody who can get out should, but when people who are most useful or potentially damaging to US government leave, it has a big impact. Navalny stayed in Russia. Is anybody better off for it? There is nothing more useful to the US government than for people it needs to stay there. When they leave, it gets weaker, and the forces that want to resist its actions get stronger. Nobody is helped by his staying in the US and having his app shut down and then having him forced into working to support the people he’s trying to fight. Life isn’t a movie. Sometimes the best action to take isn’t the one that’s going to win an academy award, but wins the war.
Did you know wooden shoes are BOGO right now?
Spoken like someone with nothing to lose.
