don’t have to tell me that, I even donate to signal
Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag
MMNT@lemmy.world 4 months agoJust use signal ffs.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag
MMNT@lemmy.world 4 months agoJust use signal ffs.
don’t have to tell me that, I even donate to signal
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Signal sucks from a UI/UX standpoint, when they dropped SMS support I lost any ability to convince people to switch, and everyone who had already switched left.
Then there’s the seamless switching between devices…which it doesn’t do.
Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Using SMS through signal defeats the purpose of signal…
The UI is fine, what more do you expect out of it? It has a list of chats, a menu button with menu options, like it’s a messaging app not a social media platform akin to discord or telegram.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m a signal donor and while I disagree with your point regarding UI (have you used in the past couple of years? It’s went from feeling dated to feeling pretty modern), yeah the SMS thing is a joke.
Even worse, though, is that the EU offered them the opportunity to become relevant on a silver platter, by forcing WhatsApp to open up their app and be cross-platform with others who want to. Signal said no thanks.
I get it, WhatsApp stores metadata, and Signal doesn’t like that. But they were fine with (way way worse) SMS for a while? The day Signal chose that path was the day Signal willingly chose to be irrelevant for the vast vast vast majority of people.
pandapoo@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
… agreeing to be directly compatible with Whatsapp would mean they agree to surrender the privacy for every single instance of Signal-WhatsApp communication.
If the whole reason for your existence is privacy, it seems that it would be an existential danger to create a partnership with the implicit understanding that it will destroy privacy.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Some level of privacy, yes. Solely in WhatsApp-signal chats.
But you know what the alternative is? Nobody using signal. And that’s objectively worse.
Cross-compatibility with WhatsApp would mean more people on signal, meaning more signal-signal chats.
Signal-SMS is FAR less private, but they were fine with that for years.