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I'm not really sure who you're talking to ... they asked me to use Signal, honestly I didn't really care ...

• erlehmann_ 10y ago
  Signal is bad for other reasons, too, like creating a lock-in effect and being hostile to clients that remove the dependency on Google Play Services: http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/signal-lock-in.html http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/posts/signal-lock-in.ht...
  • whyever 10y ago
    You could also say that Signal is good because they realized the shortcomings of federation and want to sign their binaries themselves.
    • erlehmann_ 10y ago
      What would those shortcomings be? I think that networked software systems should be forward-compatible, so that new features can be introduced without breaking every existing client. Some programmers assert the only way to innovate is by having everyone run the latest version of their software and excluding competing implementations. You can see this phenomenon not only with Signal, but also, for example, with systemd.
      • whyever 10y ago
        > What would those shortcomings be? Moxie wrote about it: https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://whispersystems.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/