- If you have a targeted group/peer need then whatever they are using or whatever you all decide right in the beginning - I’d suggest Matrix or some other decentralised alternative, definitely not Signal.
- Matrix had the huge opportunity to be “the messaging app” but they neither became good at corporate usage and definitely ended up sucking at personal usage. They started doing too many things, at once, and while completely ignoring the individual user.
- If you want a wider general acceptance then sadly Matrix is DoA. WhatsApp becomes a huge choice outside USA and China but it has started becoming shittier by the day and looking at who has become WhatsApp’s global head now, I don’t think it’s gonna get any better (check his last “app” or company’s screenshots and come here if you don’t end up vomiting). So Signal or maybe some other similar app. You are limited by societal trends and acceptance here, not the tech or finesse or privacy of an app.
- If you just want privacy and a simpler app, proven (at least so far), then well Signal it is, as much as I hate it for reasons they decided to make it a centralised messaging app and then stuffed crypto in it etc.
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8·14 days agoAnd to add insult to the injury they will then be asked to be “nicer” and will be blamed for not getting enough tips. I mean for heaven’s sake NL, don’t become a hellhole, even though it’d be a richer hellhole. And mind it, “overall” richer, not everybody richer, oh no, oh no! Very few will become massively richer and a lot will start becoming drastically poorer (just look at the big beautiful Gaad’s own nation).
Then they will come for the housing and health and other benefits that the citizens and residents are entitled to, whatever there is.
Remind me again… is the right wing (populism etc) getting a foothold in the NL (like in DE) by any chance?
See…. when the software hub for the world is just one nation (and that too the most powerful, the most corrupt, in fact with legal corruption, and has been the single most devastating nation to this planet - indirectly and directly, with a leader at the helm who is… well let’s not get into that… … yada yada) then the risk is not just someday your banking system and emails stop working, these are far greater and insidious risks.
This is how societies are broken and then taken apart.
Tim Cook sucks at this point
Careful there.
My best breakups have been when I didn’t wait for the best or right time to break up. Because once you are there, even if you wait, you know it’s never going to be the right time; it will only fester and fester until your entirety is gradually dragged into an existential sepsis.
234·5 months agoThat’s absurd coming from the founder of a FOSS messaging app who actively decided not to let Signal federate and rejected any other open source Signal client. Not only that, even now you can’t truly use Signal’s new “username” feature. If any of the recipients have your number stored in their phonebook, irrespective of whether you know them or not, the username goes for a toss. This was/is the problem with Telegram’s username feature. Signal knew this and still decided to go ahead with it. Not to mention never doing anything about completely removing the phone number from the account after its creation. This has been, by design, a privacy and hence safety threat, and even after the username feature was implemented, this not getting implemented is very concerning.
1·9 months agoSome companies buy other companies to let them die – strategically, some companies buy other companies to get their features/talents but remove any trace of that company or that design language, or so. Some companies buy other companies to control competition. Apple seems to buy other companies for doing nothing at all. They have so much money that they buy other companies, but they are so bad at software that they can’t figure out what to do with it after that.
It’s sad stating this as an iPhone/Mac user (but not an Apple fan – yes, there’s a distinction), but even if Apple is able to buy Google in its entirety, they will not be able to fix search in any part of the Apple ecosystem.
A lot of these “privacy sensitive” service providers are actually quite user-hostile.
Find a middle ground - get your own domain (pick a good registrar) and find a respectable mail host that has a support team with accountability who don’t treat you like a burden on this planet when you attempt to contact them (i.e not Tuta, not Mailbox-org - nope!!!, not Proton etc.). Do not go overboard with DMARC/etc in the beginning. Go about it slowly.
Also - make sure you use a service that lets you connect via an IMAP/POP client. It pains me to say that, but if you start avoiding services based on “five eyes” and “14 eyes” and “195 eyes”, I’m pretty sure we will be looking at pigeons and corked bottles in the sea. So, if you need E2EE over email - please use E2EE in the email using GPG on your own. I’d highly recommend not falling for the privacy theatre of the likes of Proton.
- By forcing you to use a non-anonymous Google Account.
- Then tying it with Google Play Services on that device.
- Google Play Services are like a combo of arteries and nerves of Android OS.
That’s how.
Would you ever offer a cloud plan that’s just a bookmarking service and nothing else, at much much lower cost of course?
You know, something like this. If it doesn’t financially and logistically make sense then it’s okay and one would understand. Thank you for this cool FOSS tool by the way.