Signal is the world’s most widely used truly private messaging app, and our cryptographic technologies provide extra layers of privacy beyond the Signal app itself. Since launching in 2013, the Signal Protocol—our end-to-end encryption technology—has become the de facto standard for private commu...
  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Crazy how decentralization improves both, but they are vehemently against that. I trust them in terms of privacy, but their insistence on centralization, blocking third party apps, removing SMS, and refusal to support fdroid, I’m not a fan of the direction they’ve gone recently.

        • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Yeah I think you are right. I too was really mad at Signal for ditching sms, and THEN having the audacity to ask for donations! This article shines a light on the reasons, wow.

          Still, I would only donate if they kept sms in there. Not without sms because now it’s just one more isolated platform and no longer a one-stop solution at it used to be.

  • Scolding7300@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    They should post a average price per user so we’ll know what’s the minimum to donate (probably 5$ which is the minimum in the app IIRC)

    • Margot Robbie@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Especially when your identity on Signal is STILL only tied to a phone number, instead of a username, and there is nothing less private than actually giving out your real phone number.

      Absolutely baffling.

      • sergih@feddit.deEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I heard they gonna introduce usernames for sharing your acc. but to make one u still need a phone to create an acc. which I understand.

    • polle@feddit.deEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Lol, that was the worst feature ever. If you forgot disabling it at install, it was nearly impossible to see it’s going to be a sms or signal message. (Especially for people who aren’t tech savvy)