I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."
if there is one survival skill I would REALLY like everyone opposed to the fascist GOP to learn right now, it's "do not say things on the public internet that will provide authorities with useful pretenses for coming after you."
Smarter people than me can explain why signal isn’t automatically safe. It’s better but you can still end up hearing someone read transcripts from it in court.
if state actors access your device and you have stuff written down on there that's bad for you you will have problems. use message retention. if you're discussing something that could be bad for you in court, use signal to coordinate irl meetings or calls (on signal).
