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I see they don't want to review more apps but I'd like to see someone's take on Wire, which seems to have all the things people like about Signal (axolotl-based
by lmm 2y ago
I see they don't want to review more apps but I'd like to see someone's take on Wire, which seems to have all the things people like about Signal (axolotl-based protocol, open-source, modern) without the things people don't (closed platforms only, weird vibes).
- some_furry 2y agoThey seem committed to adopting MLS, which is a net-positive. https://docs.wire.com/how-to/install/mls.html https://docs.wire.com/how-to/install/mls.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9420.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9420.html
- newscracker 2y agoI’ve used Wire for quite sometime before (when Signal didn’t have desktop message sync). I’ve even recommended it here. It was after a year or so of usage that I realized that Wire does not provide any way to export or save chats outside of its application (it has a backup option to backup from and restore back to Wire). Wire also seems to store images on its servers and those images won’t be available if you save a backup and restore from it. The backup formats are platform/OS specific. Losing images but having just text alone was a big loss for me. For all practical purposes from a basic end user’s point of view, Wire can be considered as proprietary and closed as Instagram or FB Messenger.