Comment on Switching to more privacy friendly alternatives
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
Signal is not much better than WhatsApp or any other walled garden messenger without provider choice. Don't waste your time and energy to move people to walled gardens. A better idea would be to use providers and apps that support the federated internet standard XMPP: https://joinjabber.org
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Despite being around for a while, that project is incomplete and/or insecure depending on which encryption protocol you want to choose (the best one is still labeled with a warning that it is just experimental). And then you have to hunt down a client that supports the features you want, which is another headache…
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
Which encryption protocol is labeled with a warning? The link I posted makes choosing a client very easy.
LWD@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The good one, aka OMEMO, which is mentioned on the site but not in the app recommendations
kpw@kbin.social 11 months ago
Yes, the XSF has a very high bar what a standard is and what not, so the many protocol extensions are labeled experimental. However that doesn't mean implementations are "incomplete" or "insecure". OMEMO has good support nowadays and the implementation in Conversations has been independently audited.