I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It’s all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
    107·
    11 months ago

    Except Signal UI is… Not good. It feels like using a texting app.

    Between the UI and dropping SMS support, I can’t get anyone to use it anymore, and people I had using it have moved on.

    Dropping SMS is really frustrating - it was the big selling point I had.

    • ry_
      51·
      11 months ago

      I’m one of those people who thinks SMS has no place in a private messaging app. Signal is the gold standard, and enabling sms merely legitimised this incredibly non private and antiquated messaging protocol.

      • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
        72·
        11 months ago

        And gave a constant reminder to people that something better was right there.

        And put things in one place.

        You’re letting perfect be the enemy of good. At least with SMS support I could get people to switch to “this new texting app”, and we’d then have a proper Signal encrypted chat. And when they texted someone else, Signal would append the “you could have encryption too” signature, generating a conversation about it.

        The people who moved off of Signal went back to SMS entirely. How is that better?