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I am no fan of Signal -- their well-known anti-federation rants are basically a dealkiller for me. This does not exclude Telegram being even worse. But sigh th
by AshamedCaptain 6y ago
I am no fan of Signal -- their well-known anti-federation rants are basically a dealkiller for me. This does not exclude Telegram being even worse.
But sigh that the "secure messaging app conundrum" is apparently limited to two terrible choices.
- Arnt 6y agoOr, if you want, sigh that the federated system we had before sucked worse. (I eventually just deinstalled my XMPP clients; XMPP is federated but that was no saving grace. And anyway, whoever controlled jabber.ccc.de had a lot of the traffic.)
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoAnything that is not federated is out of the question. There's is just way too much risk involved. I don't care if the clients offer integrated GIF meme search. Actually I would even rate decentralization as preferable over encryption. And if you ask me I had never heard of jabber.ccc.de -- never saw anyone from there. I would have said that either jabber.at or xmpp.jp dominated the network.
- Funes- 6y ago>But sigh that the "secure messaging app conundrum" is apparently limited to two terrible choices. I share that sentiment. There are encrypted messaging apps out there that don't rely on servers, like Jami, tox or Briar, the last of those three being the best one, in my estimation, as it uses Tor and can function on a mesh network, the only drawback being not having the ability to send media attachments. There are good alternatives to centralized, corporativistic messaging apps (I include Signal here); we just have to be willing to look for them and make the switch.