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Realistically none of these are very good options. Starting a competitive messenger application is likely to be impossible - Signal got to where it is thanks in
by ximeng 6y ago
Realistically none of these are very good options. Starting a competitive messenger application is likely to be impossible - Signal got to where it is thanks in large part to 50mn USD from Whatsapp's founder. The fact that it's very difficult means that there aren't a huge number of competitive choices, and none that are "Signal but you can access your data". So even though complaining is not a great option, it might be the most likely way to get what is wanted, whether by someone from Signal seeing the request and agreeing, or someone else seeing there is a market for this.
If you have a choice between Whatsapp (metadata not private, but has backup) versus Signal (metadata private but no backup), if you need backup (or anyone you communicate with does), you lose privacy because you're forced to use Whatsapp. Arguably because of Signal's refusal to "compromise" on privacy by allowing backups you have lost privacy anyway.
- _underfl0w_ 6y agoA better option may simply be to fork and add the additional features, not necessarily create a new client.
- satysin 6y agoThis raises an interesting question. Can one fork the Signal iOS app, add features then publish to the App Store while using Signals infrastructure?
- pseudalopex 6y agoThey changed the license so you can publish forks. They're opposed to forks using Signal's infrastructure though.
- saurik 6y agoIf you do this you would not get push notifications.