So, this is interesting. I wanted to find that essay by @dessalines@lemmy.ml outlining the many issues of Signal and suggested alternatives, but DuckDuckGo had nothing for me. Not on the first page, not on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th page.
I thought maybe I just imagined the title, but sure enough, on searching lemmy posts, it was right there. Then I thought “hang on, there’s hardly a mention let alone criticism of signal on any page of those search results!”.
Hmm… the wording might be a bit ambiguous, but let’s compare:
- DuckDuckGo “why not signal” - NOTHING
- Google “why not signal”
- Plenty of results! Dessaline’s essay is first up, followed by a plethora of discussions about the essay on HN, Reddit, lemmys, mastodons, and more. Not evil! …this time.
- DuckDuckGo “why not signal” dessalines
- Okay, so DDG has indexed it just fine. Maybe dessalines is “downranked” à la RT.com?
- DuckDuckGo “why not market socialism”
- Nope, finds one of dessalines’ socialism essays just fine, half way down the page.
All of the following except Gigablast returned a healthy list of results including the original essay:
I thought I’d test this. I got the essay as the 4th result, the top 3 are about mobile phone signal, with the essay coming in as 4th.
I use Vivaldi on Android. DDG has my location set to the UK.
Same, using Firefox with DGG as default search engine
I don’t see it when I search for
Why not signalbut I see it if I searchWhy not signal lemmyCatering to their right wing user base, maybe?
No. Put off your tinfoil hat, you’re safe.
I’m glad the tinfoil hat essays don’t pop up.
Internet. Sanitised for your protection. ™
That’s how the Internet works in self-claimed communist countries.
What part of that article is tinfoil hat?
Something between the lines of Signal being an evil tool from the CIA to overthrow “communist” regimes around the world, because it’s funded by the OTF. It’s all conspiracy theories.
When you dont have any arguments, just call it conspiracy theory. No one can disagree with that!
Do conspiracy theorists have real arguments other than FUD and delusion?
