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I think if Signal gets shut down it will be a real turning point. Either a huge number of people are going to move to the Riot solution of hosting their own mes
by m3rc 10y ago
I think if Signal gets shut down it will be a real turning point. Either a huge number of people are going to move to the Riot solution of hosting their own messaging, or a hundred new Signal's are going to pop up just forking the already OSS Signal code.
- akie 10y agoI thought the Snowden revelations were going to be the turning point. But it turned out it was not a turning point, but just a wake-up call. I honestly don't see a revolution coming if Signal is shut down. There will be some angry folks, sure, and that will last a while, but then everyone will move on. Exactly as it happened with the Snowden revelations.
- m3rc 10y agoI doubt any sort of real revolution would happen, my comment was probably worded badly. I meant more as a turning point for the sort of privacy-conscious people who already use Signal. I, and a lot of the people I talk to, take a position on personal tech privacy on something of a middleground, not the full nuclear option and not the Facebook option. If Signal goes down I would speculate a lot of people who already have things like encrypted messengers, adblockers, things of that nature, would start to move to the only-vpn, no javascript run ever, no Google Play Services on your phone, no proprietary software at any stage of your life sort of deal.