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> I spent a few weeks recently persuading two relatively large groups of non-technical people (50+ people in each) to move from WhatsApp to Signal Yes, I had i
by rapnie 6y ago
> I spent a few weeks recently persuading two relatively large groups of non-technical people (50+ people in each) to move from WhatsApp to Signal
Yes, I had informally announced my network that I'd move from Whatsapp to Signal - which I already used - and was just planning to make formal announcement to all my contacts, and install an autoresponder (Watomatic) on Whatsapp with reminders to reach me on Signal. But I'm holding off now, not sure what to do. I haven't accepted Whatsapp's new privacy policy yet, so I guess will continue using that for a while longer. Considering if Matrix wouldn't be a better choice as my next default messenger.
- webmobdev 6y agoSeriously consider GNU Jami - https://jami.net/ https://jami.net/ ...
- Kim_Bruning 6y agoI installed it briefly (it's on f-droid, big plus!) , but it doesn't seem to have any way built in to easily find anyone to actually talk to?
- webmobdev 6y agoYeah, it's like the old Yahoo / MSN / ICQ messenger model - you have to add the users after finding out their unique user name / id.
- Koliakis 6y ago> Considering if Matrix wouldn't be a better choice as my next default messenger From what I've seen, Matrix is far worse metadata-wise than Signal. If Signal is bad, Matrix is worse.
- jakecopp 6y ago> From what I've seen, Matrix is far worse metadata-wise than Signal What have you seen? I haven't come across anything to suggest this.
- Koliakis 6y agoExamples: https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-matrix.org/-/blob/master/part1/README.md https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-ma... https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-matrix.org/-/blob/master/part2/README.md https://gitlab.com/libremonde-org/papers/research/privacy-ma... https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8473 https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8473 Synapse does a lot of logging, apparently. I'm not sure I'd touch Matrix with a ten foot pole.