Signal itself is solid. For now. The issue is that signal is a centralized infrastructure service that is based in the US.
While it’s rather unlikely that something shady is going on and the current administration manages to pressure someone into installing back doors without anyone noticing, there is a growing chance that at some point the Orange Hitler or his cronies aim at Signal - and simply shut the whole thing down in a single sweep.
Which would mean the whole thing is lost - in theory they of course could rebuild a foundation outside the US, but that would also mean they need people not residing in the US (not like Proton which claims to operate from Switzerland and in reality are US based) and find funding there - enough funding to cover the costs and that is not impeded by US pressure.
This is the scenario that makes Signal a problematic candidate - and sadly the foundation is doing nothing against it.
GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Its a 18 months old but OP means this on the same site. マリウス.com/if-you-must-use-signal-use-molly/
The blogger also stopped using proton mail. So idk. Seems to be their thing atm.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I started reading the article but didn’t finish. This guy is a fool. He’s bitching about vendor lock in? The data isn’t supposed to be portable. That’s the point.