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[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The app was genuinely down on Jan 25. Bunch of coverage. No need to spin conspiracy theories about this particular user or set of tags.

There is a valid question about whether or not the app as a whole was intentionally hamstrung in the US on Jan 25 tho.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

There's multiple videos showing users using the US version of the app being able to send normal messages but not being able to send messages with the word "Epstein". It doesn't always go off though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4K16qCuJUE

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not trying to move the goalposts on you here. Both the original image that you posted and my comment referred to the very well documented total outage on Jan 25. What you have responded with is sometimes private messages containing specific phrases occasionally don’t go through. While that may be the case, that is not what either your original post or my response were about.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Many users have reported the pattern of Epstein messages being censored and not other messages. The video goes more in-depth on it. A "power outage" isn't a great explanation for it.

[–] thesmokingman@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago

Messages are not what your original post or my comment were referring to. If you take the time to reread my original comment, you’ll see

There is a valid question about whether or not the app as a whole was intentionally hamstrung in the US on Jan 25 tho.

I don’t know why you’re acting like I didn’t say that or was talking about messages.

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