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What makes Signal less at risk than WhatsApp? Are they profitable in other ways? Are they at the same risk of capture?
by ndr 1y ago
What makes Signal less at risk than WhatsApp?
Are they profitable in other ways? Are they at the same risk of capture?
- alternatex 1y agoNon-profit and actually quite economically efficient per user. Once WhatsApp was bought by Meta the writing was on the wall. I moved out of it immediately and I'm surprised people are caught off-guard by this news. I suppose there's little guarantee Signal won't be sold, but an ultra popular app with no profit, owned by a single bloke (WhatsApp) was the last thing I expected to be a sustainable platform for my communications. Same reason I've never looked at Telegram.
- palata 1y agoSignal is open source, for one, so if Signal started pushing for ads, then someone could fork it into a new service. In my opinion, the goal is not to find "the perfect monopoly". The goal is to be versatile. Right now, Signal is better than WhatsApp (be it just because it does not belong to Meta), and using Signal is absolutely trivial (it can even be used in parallel to WhatsApp). I use Signal today, if in 2 years Signal goes into surveillance capitalism and ads, well I'll move to the next one. And then the next one. It's not like it requires a PhD to use a clone of a messaging app.