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"The perfect is the enemy of the good." Onboarding friends and family to Matrix or XMPP is almost impossible. Signal is dead simple and automatically discovers
by tapoxi 8y ago
"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
Onboarding friends and family to Matrix or XMPP is almost impossible. Signal is dead simple and automatically discovers your contacts, while being secure, open, and developed by a non-profit.
Ideally I'd like it to be a federated system, but I'm not going to use untrustworthy systems like Messenger/WhatsApp because I'm not getting every feature I want.
- anoncake 8y agoSignal is not open. That's the problem. You are forced to use the official client.
- omnimus 8y agoThats also probably the main reason why it is sucessful. Everybody gets the same. They focus on one thing and don't delute it with funky in a year maintainer lost interest rust clients. I don't care. Give me ethical, privacy minded software not some phd experiments.
- anoncake 8y agoYou don't care about freedom, got it.