This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I wish Signal was developed more openly, more like the linux kernel for a "critical infrastructure" example. I wish it had more features, so it could take the place of something like Slack. I wish it supported interoperability like fedi.
But it's good for what it is and I sure am glad it's around. People who disrespect it don't know what they're talking about.
You know, if you want to replace Slack, look into Mattermost. It's foss but otherwise pretty much exactly what Slack does so well.
How much signal and she spend onnthis shameless self promotion.
JFC, if anything she is taking signal the wrong way and going the way of mozilla IMHO
Signal is a good product but there is a lot areas where it can do better... Have gotten any new features over last 5 years? Besides aliases?
What are they working on?
Seen interesting discussions about how signal is farming our meta data to the feds, I was clowned a few years back on this hot take. I am very regarded though. Can anyone pitch on this tinfoil?
Main looking to understand if that is even technically feasible?
I was clowned a few years back on this hot take. I am very regarded though. Can anyone pitch on this tinfoil?
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Poster was made fun of in the past for saying Signal gave metadata to the feds. He has a learning disability (regarded = deliberately misspelled R slur). They’re looking for someone else to corroborate the metadata claim.
That’s my interpretation at least.
You sir ain't only a linguist but a regard whisper too!
Thank you for the service!
They did a blog post about how the feds had made a second attempt to get metadata from them and they could only provide two fields of information: the date the account was created and the last time it connected to the service.
It's in the public record as well if I'm not mistaken.
Yeah idk I’ve read it like 4 times and still struggle to find a coherent thought here.
(almost) anything is possible with a CIA black fund budget. I've moved to Simplex chat and not looked back.
I feel that but people can't just move since we need somebody to talk on these super duper 69 layer quantum resistant protocols.
Looks simolex is gunning for the crown nowadays tho but there other viable contenders baking.
Once new leader arrives, going to need to tell my group we migrating again 🤕
Why? Just stay on Signal. For the time being it is one of the leaders in private communication.
Though, if you truly need secure private conversations, you would want to move around a lot anyway.
For now it is the gold standard but I don't trust the leadership and their PR approach.
I won't move until I can justify moving my friends over and right now there is no alternative
Nobody is going to use Signal when it lacks so many features. Feels like MSN messenger compared to it's peers.
what do you mean? i use it a lot and it works great, photos, videos, optional temporary location sharing with friends, and encryption.
what features do you want it to have that it's lacking?
Yea we heavily use it in the army
very cool, i had no idea.
free, convenient, reliable encryption.
Don’t forget voice calls! It has some rough edges there (my audio doesn’t always connect successfully, etc), but when it works the codec sounds better than a standard phone call and there’s no mass surveillance. I use it in place of phone calls for all the people in my network who have it, including my immediate family.
that's a great point, i use the voice calls daily
My guess is it heavily private and does not have channels
does not have channels
except that it does. you can make a public group with a shareable link, and change permissions so that only the admins can post.
I'm guessing they probably want stickers or something
Edit: apparently this is available on signal so I have no fucking idea then
Don't forget, cross-platform!
i totally forgot, another great point
Signal is the best thing going on in tech these days. I’m very glad it’s being led by Meredith Whittaker.
Did you know you can get a cool badge on your profile pic if you’re a recurring donor? $5 a month is far less than the value I get from it, but that’s all it takes for a cool badge (and knowing that you’re doing something active against the awful state of big tech today).
I love the idea of signal, and want to use it and invite friends to it. But then I remember I don't really want to message anyone, and don't really have friends because I have no interest in messaging people.
