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Seize the moment - switch to signal.
by heywherelogingo 5y ago
Seize the moment - switch to signal.
- madeofpalk 5y agoIs Signal not equally centralised, and thus susceptible to the exact same problem as this?
- CodeGlitch 5y agoYes it is. Alternatives beyond signal that normies can use: Email. Spread the word!
- _-david-_ 5y agoDoesn't help when everyone just uses Gmail.
- sneak 5y agoWrite a blog post teaching them how to stop: https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/ https://sneak.berlin/20201029/stop-emailing-like-a-rube/
- _-david-_ 5y agoConvincing somebody who can hardly turn on their computer to get their own domain is just not practical. Even if they can get their own domain they still have to set up DNS. Good luck getting them to set up MX, spf and dkim. I think things would be better if more people had their own domain. I just don't see any way of making it happen. I can't get my own family to leave gmail even with me handling all the domain stuff for them. Even my technical coworkers who are capable of this don't care.
- celsoazevedo 5y agoYeah, but if you're going to use something centralised anyway, may as well use a more private option.
- oneeyedpigeon 5y agoThis issue isn't about privacy, it's about reliability. How reliable is Signal compared to WhatsApp?
- m-chrzan 5y agoYes. In the ideal world messaging would've have followed the same federalized model as email. XMPP offers this, unfortunately few people use it or even are aware of it.
- goodpoint 5y agoCorrect. Switch to Briar.
- Unklejoe 5y agoYep. Matrix is a decentralized alternative (provided you don't just use the default homeserver).
- derin 5y ago...and where do you go when AWS/Signal's servers go down? How about choosing something that's federated? https://matrix.org/ https://matrix.org/
- CodeGlitch 5y agoEmail (I'm not kidding)
- grey_earthling 5y agoDelta.chat is an instant messenger implemented over email. Alternatively, it's an email client that looks like an instant messenger.
- celsoazevedo 5y agoI'm fine with Matrix, but I'm not seeing the people around me moving to it, even with a more friendly solution like Element. It's already hard to make them use Signal just because they want users to remember a pin...
- gpderetta 5y agoCan't tell them to switch if whatsapp is down! More guidance required.
- mdoms 5y agoBased on their track record I wouldn't be surprised if Signal just happened to be having an extended outage too.