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Email. Matrix. XMPP. All of these have a very important aspect in common: you can choose your application you want to access the network with. I'm tired of nee
by pmlnr 7y ago
Email. Matrix. XMPP.
All of these have a very important aspect in common: you can choose your application you want to access the network with. I'm tired of needing to use The Official®©™ App, and Signal is no exception. It's also a single entity thus being a single point of failure.
If you really want to make a difference please try to make people to migrate to something open. Quicksy[^1], DeltaChat[^2], something. But not another, essentially closed platform.
[^1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.client https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=im.quicksy.cli...
[^2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.delta https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=chat.delta
- hellcow 7y agoI agree. However email metadata isn't secure, so that's a nonstarter. I'm rooting for Matrix but thusfar Riot's UX to get an encrypted conversation going leaves a lot to be desired. No way are the non-technical people I know going to be able to do that. Signal "just works" with secure defaults, so that's the best we've got for now.
- metildaa 7y agoUse Pyre.chat or signal-weechat. There are other options beyond Signal to chat with contacts on Signal.