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This is essentially what signal achieves IMO: it's replacements for sms, mms, audio with added security (plus video and group chat). Using your telephone numbe
by sigg3 5y ago
This is essentially what signal achieves IMO: it's replacements for sms, mms, audio with added security (plus video and group chat).
Using your telephone number as username the experience is transparent and unlike all other messaging apps. I can write texts to whomever and if they do have signal, it defaults to encrypted coms. It's inclusive by design.
Other services require usernames and email and whatnot, which effectively ensures it will not be the default. (I understand Apple users cannot change the default messaging app to only use Signal, which is a choice in tune with the walled garden and exclusive by design.)
- npteljes 5y agoSignal doesn't achieve this at all. In this regard, they are just another messaging service that's not compatible with anything and also they are discouraging (to say the least) unofficial clients from connecting official servers. They are yet another fragment in the already fragmented ecosystem. What's a step forward in this regard is projects like libpurple or Matrix bridges. Whose goal is to make already existing networks interconnected.