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That is just sad. I've been a longtime signal user (since the textsecure/redphone days). I've always given moxie a pass on his controversial decisions (no fede
by aaaxyz 6y ago
That is just sad.
I've been a longtime signal user (since the textsecure/redphone days).
I've always given moxie a pass on his controversial decisions (no federalisation, no 3rd party clients, no fdroid repo, relying on Google play services, being slow to release serverside source code) because the team was small and obviously had to cut corners somewhere.
But learning that they spent their time adding support for a (premined?) cryptocurrency just because it's Moxie's pet project is disheartening.
What are the odds that this would've been merged into the project if it had been a merge request opened by someone from the outside?
- nullc 6y agoEspecially when you consider those decisions in light of this move: they create platform lock in and lockdown. Want to run signal with no payments integration or with a Bitcoin wallet instead? Too bad.
- adeptus 6y agoWhat are your (you guys) opinions on Session (https://getsession.org/ https://getsession.org/), the Signal clone that uses Tor, and no phone numbers? Any significant downsides? Anybody know the team there and can speak on their trustworthiness, longer term intentions etc? What about the code they've added? Anybody review that? At a quick glance it looks like a decent but less user friendly alternative (no phone numbers - good for privacy, bad for grandma's to be able to adopt it easily). Thanks.
- haakon 6y agoThey are also going to integrate a cryptocurrency: https://getsession.org/crypto-craze/ https://getsession.org/crypto-craze/