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This sounds potentially useful. I mostly used (for more than a year) Telegram for ad-hoc interactions at technical conferences. (E.g. EuroPython 2016 & some g

This sounds potentially useful. I mostly used (for more than a year) Telegram for ad-hoc interactions at technical conferences. (E.g. EuroPython 2016 & some groups I interact with at FOSDEM 2018 used it, so I "had" to use it.). And right now, it's sitting dormant since February. [Slightly off-topic & potentially opening a barrel of worms ahead; and this has been discussed to death here.] Now ... I have been using (also for well over a year) the Signal Messenger. Given Signal's funding model, their crypto protocol (which was peer-reviewed & got robust positive feedback -- corroborated through its adoption by WhatsApp & Facebook Messenger) and their (almost) zero metadata collection, I found it's better to invest my energies in Signal. So, FWIW, I have been trying to "converge" on Signal and slowly persuading (without forcing, of course) friends to use it; I've had good success so far. A lot of my colleagues & a decent chunk of people I collaborate with in the open source community already use Signal. So that's not a problem there. This is all just to make an attempt at maintaining sanity with the Chat Tool proliferation. Wonder how others are handling it.

interfixus 9y ago
My exact same route and experience, although I heartily detest Signal's phone number required misfeature and the agressively forced contact sharing.
- kashyapc 9y ago
  Yes, you raise a difficult point about the phone number required feature. And you're at least the second person I hear (legitimately) complain about it; the other was from a technical friend, during an in-person conversation. I realize that requiring phone number compromises the anonymity aspect (despite Signal's unparalleled privacy, given the alternatives). But I was giving (and still do) Signal the benefit of doubt and assume they're also going to implement username / password scheme – not sure if it's a good idea or not.

interfixus 9y ago

My exact same route and experience, although I heartily detest Signal's phone number required misfeature and the agressively forced contact sharing.

kashyapc 9y ago
Yes, you raise a difficult point about the phone number required feature. And you're at least the second person I hear (legitimately) complain about it; the other was from a technical friend, during an in-person conversation. I realize that requiring phone number compromises the anonymity aspect (despite Signal's unparalleled privacy, given the alternatives). But I was giving (and still do) Signal the benefit of doubt and assume they're also going to implement username / password scheme – not sure if it's a good idea or not.