Because of the ongoing fucktastrophe, the cries of "Use SIGNAL!" are constant and unavoidable. And I get it, it may be the least-bad option in a sea of terrible options. If, that is, you choose to ignore the advice of "don't use your phone for that shit" (the Stringer Bell Rule). But out of curiosity, because I haven't been keeping up, has the Signal Corporation addressed: The fact that they ...
Signal is OK as a beginner privacy tool. Like with all gateway drugs or gateway animes or gateway videogames, you gotta start somewhere.
But it does is certainly a platform at-risk. Storage is US-centered, connectivity can be cut at any moment, and it’s quite centralized to the point of forbidding 3p clients from interacting with the main Signal “network”.
I come from the 90s. XMPP / Jabber is so much better.
Signal is OK as a beginner privacy tool. Like with all gateway drugs or gateway animes or gateway videogames, you gotta start somewhere.
But it does is certainly a platform at-risk. Storage is US-centered, connectivity can be cut at any moment, and it’s quite centralized to the point of forbidding 3p clients from interacting with the main Signal “network”.
I come from the 90s. XMPP / Jabber is so much better.