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To be fair, my Signal list of contacts keeps growing here in NL. I do some light proselytizing, but it seems to be moving along on it's own. Hopefully Arjan L

by furyg3 8y ago

To be fair, my Signal list of contacts keeps growing here in NL. I do some light proselytizing, but it seems to be moving along on it's own. Hopefully Arjan Lubach (Holland's Jon Oliver) will do a hit-peice on WhatsApp like he did on Facebook at some point in the future. I'd like to delete WhatsApp, but any conversation I have in Signal vs WhatsApp is a small victory that I'll take. If at some point more than 50% of my messages are outside WA, I'll nuke it.

52-6F-62 8y ago
Signal seems to be growing here in Toronto as well. I'm virtually ostracized by my lack of social media engagement so my list is short, but I encouraged my girlfriend to pick it up after the more public Facebook fiascos as she was a heavy Messenger user. As soon as she installed it, she found a good selection of her contact list was already on there, including her company's owner. Her major concern was keeping in touch with friends and family in Montana, California, and BC. She's still stuck between the two apps because of coworkers, employees, and other holdouts, though.
Freak_NL 8y ago
Signal inherits some of WhatsApp's limitations though. It requires that the primary device be an Android or IOS based smartphone with an internet connection; and your identifier is your telephone number, which has the same privacy implications as WhatsApp. With the centralised server model choosing Signal over WhatsApp is basically betting that Open Whisper Systems won't monetize your data, or won't be bought out by some bigger fish. Why can't I use a messaging service from my desktop without having a smartphone with pre-approved operating system nearby?
- brewrwe 8y ago
  Signal-CLI and Signald both allow one to register a number on a desktop for use with Signal, you can even pull your messages right into weechat if you want: https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat

by furyg3 8y ago

52-6F-62 8y ago

Signal seems to be growing here in Toronto as well. I'm virtually ostracized by my lack of social media engagement so my list is short, but I encouraged my girlfriend to pick it up after the more public Facebook fiascos as she was a heavy Messenger user. As soon as she installed it, she found a good selection of her contact list was already on there, including her company's owner. Her major concern was keeping in touch with friends and family in Montana, California, and BC. She's still stuck between the two apps because of coworkers, employees, and other holdouts, though.

Freak_NL 8y ago

Signal inherits some of WhatsApp's limitations though. It requires that the primary device be an Android or IOS based smartphone with an internet connection; and your identifier is your telephone number, which has the same privacy implications as WhatsApp. With the centralised server model choosing Signal over WhatsApp is basically betting that Open Whisper Systems won't monetize your data, or won't be bought out by some bigger fish. Why can't I use a messaging service from my desktop without having a smartphone with pre-approved operating system nearby?

brewrwe 8y ago
Signal-CLI and Signald both allow one to register a number on a desktop for use with Signal, you can even pull your messages right into weechat if you want: https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat https://github.com/thefinn93/signal-weechat