Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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• mundane@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  When they dropped sms support I was no longer able to convince people to migrate to signal.

  Before I could make the argument that you need one sms app anyway so that app might just as well be Signal instead of the one that comes preloaded with your phone. That way people would gradually get more and more secure messaging as time went on. When sms support was dropped, Signal could not replace an existing app and adding another messing app is much less appealing than replacing one.

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• mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I got tired of asking my family to download yet another app. Went iPhone at this point.

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  • 96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How many apps did you ask them to download?

    Personally, I only asked for this one, and everyone who is of importance to me chose to do it.

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    • mrodri89@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I went from Telegram to WhatsApp. That was enough to annoy my people.

      You know and I was the biggest smack talker of apple and I got the 16 pro just to get encryption when talking to my mom and husband. I can see why people like these things.

      But it does feel very basic coming from a long time Samsung user.

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• adbenitez@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  so a centralized American messenger enshitified, lets switch to the next centralized American messenger, it surely will not enshitify in the future, lets ignore the actual problem, what could go wrong

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• Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  i dont use whatsapp that much anyways

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• Steven_T_Baxter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Compare with Zangi Private Messenger. Yes, every country who has jurisdiction has access. Just ask yourself, which gov do I trust more with my private chats?

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• romantired@shibanu.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  telegram much better

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  • original_reader@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I features, yes. By 10 miles.

    Privacy? It isn’t driving anymore at this point.

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    • romantired@shibanu.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      any proofs?

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• JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Wasn’t WhatsApp essentially built from Signal’s base protocol anyway? Why use the meta clone when the original is right there?

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  • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    No. WhatsApp came first, but later adopted Signal’s key exchange and encryption. One of WhatsApp’s founders is now chairman of the Signal Foundation and a major financial backer of the project.

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    • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Thanks!

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