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This post was the last straw for me. I'll be moving myself and my wife off of Signal for our family messaging.
by gavinhoward 4y ago
This post was the last straw for me. I'll be moving myself and my wife off of Signal for our family messaging.
- barbazoo 4y agoOver a bug? What will you me moving off to? I feel like there isn't anything that's better in terms of privacy and still accessible enough to be explained to parents and even grandparents. Does signal reliance on phone numbers, crypto garbage, SMS removal all suck for some people? Totally. But what else is there? Matrix? The fediverse? I don't know.
- gavinhoward 4y agoI will be running a Matrix homeserver from a server I control.
- Syonyk 4y ago> Matrix Yup. And it has first party support for bridges so that you can continue to mostly interoperate with other systems without too much hassle, should you care to go that route. I've got my Matrix homeserver running with various bridges to Signal, Google, Facebook, etc, and while I talk to people "Matrix native" if I can, I'm also not actively locking myself out of other systems. Yet...