Comment on Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag

• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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    • pandapoo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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      • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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• eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  don’t have to tell me that, I even donate to signal

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