The electron hysteria just doesn’t make sense to me. I honestly could care less if it’s ‘like opening up another browser’. My system has more than enough memory and resources to handle this, and electron apps have never caused me any issues. If your system is so light that an electron app causes slow-downs and other issues, maybe the problem lies in your system’s configuration and not the electron app. Just saying.
Sure seems like people are going to removed no matter what Signal does. First, they cry about having to use a phone number. Now they cry because Signal asks them to use a PIN. These guys can’t win, seemingly. Maybe someone could come up with a method that satisfies everyone and share it with the devs. Then, everybody wins!
I think it’s worth supporting. As a project that is still pretty new, it has it’s issues. But, being 100% open source and decentralized with end-to-end encryption for all messages by default, it’s a far sight better than most of the ‘secure’ messengers out there right now. An independent security audit is in the works, as is the removal of Cloudflare. Give this one time, folks. I think it’s going to be good.
I completely agree, but how do you actually do that without sliding into censorship? I’m not saying it can’t be done, but whomever drafts up the rules needs to be VERY careful to word things in just the right way, understanding that no matter what rules they come up with, someone out there will try to exploit them for their own ends.
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