Babble – Communicate privately on state-sponsored social media
Thanks for checking out Babble! You might wonder why this app is even useful and why not just use Signal/PGP. This app's target audience is actually ordinary people in China or similar countries who are under severe government surveillance and censorship, where access to Signal and similar E2EE messaging software is blocked by nationwide firewalls, such as the Great Firewall of China (GFW). Chinese people have been deprived of freedom of speech even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Li Wenliang, who was among the first to notice the spread of the virus and warned his colleagues about it in…
Babble – Communicate privately on state-sponsored social media launched on July 18, 2022 with 100 votes, #312 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
In plain words
Babble is a messaging app designed for people in countries with severe internet censorship and surveillance, such as China, where conventional encrypted messaging services are blocked by firewalls. It enables private communication on state-sponsored social media platforms where direct access to tools like Signal is unavailable. The app targets ordinary users who need to bypass restrictions to communicate freely without government interference or message deletion.
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From the sources
Babble, adding privacy to your online presence.
The Babble app is a privacy tool designed for content creators and other Internet users who would like to protect their online contents or communications with others from unwanted AI/manual analysis and surveillance. It contains 2 components, Babble and Hina, to protect your text and image published online respectively. Babble protects your article published online and your chatting with others by encrypting your content with a password. Only people who has the same password can decrypt and read your content. On the Babble page, you can enter the text you wish to encrypt into the upper text field, and the encrypted content will appear in the bottom text field. Conversely, you can paste…from babble.landrop.app
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Thanks for checking out Babble! You might wonder why this app is even useful and why not just use Signal/PGP. This app's target audience is actually ordinary people in China or similar countries who are under severe government surveillance and censorship, where access to Signal and similar E2EE messaging…
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