• thervingi
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    2 years ago

    You can care about privacy, or you can ask a phone number during sign up. Those things are mutually exclusive.

    Don’t use Signal you care about privacy.

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      2 years ago

      Don’t let perfection be the enemy of good. All my friends and family use Signal, it was a multi-year effort to pull that off. Signal will roll out usernames faster than the tide will turn, so let’s take our wins and learn to be better.

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        Yhea.

        I can almost exclusively chat with my social circle with signal now, been using it since 8-9 years.

        I’ve tried xmpp, matrix and some other. Signal is the only one that stuck, it’s not perfect but it’s fucking fine from my perspective.

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            Element had a lot of issue last time i’ve tested it: push notification issue, convulated ui, e2e encryption disabled by default, slow server.

            I had my own server for a while for my SO and I and we often missed each other messages plus the client was draining my phone battery.

            I love the briding capacity of matrix, I woulf like to spend an evening setting that up in order to aggregate all those messaging apps but I’m afraid it’s not worth it.

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                Yhea they’re improving quite a lot, it’s great to read. Do they encrypt metadata now?

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              And yes signal is far from perfect and moxie view on some key point such as centralization are not mine. Still it’s solid software .

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        2 years ago

        This is my argument for Telegram. It’s clients are open source and has good Linux support. And unlike Signal it’s actually nice to use. (non-tech people usually dislike using Signal, but the feedback from Telegram is very positive)

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            That’s why I prefer Matrix. But it’s hard to convince people to use Matrix so Telegram it is.

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      1 year ago

      You’re conflating privacy with anonymity. Signal is not anonymous, but it is private.