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Cake day: March 12th, 2024

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  • First things first, it’s a moderated mailing list with some ads

    This is what neighborhoods in my area do but without the ads. Around here there are distinct neighborhoods that have their own names but no official designation. People have, since before social media, set up mailing lists for each neighborhood moderated by one of the residents.

    There’s occasional drama but mostly it’s people asking for tradespeople recommendations, curb alerts for furniture or photos of loose pets.

    NextDoor-type services have tried to establish a presence but have mostly been ignored.

    Maybe it’s the geography or the early adoption of e-mail lists but mailing lists work great around here.



  • Now they’re going to go after you with ‘We know you have a secret messaging app you use, Signal, and we know you used it to plan playing baby shark at the mall last Tuesday.’

    This does nothing for their case. They don’t know if you planned the crime on Signal. And, this is on non-issue if you:

    1. don’t talk to the police,
    2. have a decent lawyer.

    If you fail those two basic principles of dealing with the police, you’ve screwed yourself anyway. Accusing you of using Signal carries no weight in a court and likely wouldn’t be admissible unless they already had evidence of the contents of the messages.