On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
    • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
      371·
      4 months ago

      I was clowned a few years back on this hot take. I am very regarded though. Can anyone pitch on this tinfoil?

      ?

      • underwire212@lemm.eeEnglish
        25·
        4 months ago

        Yeah idk I’ve read it like 4 times and still struggle to find a coherent thought here.

      • deranger@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        206·
        4 months ago

        Poster was made fun of in the past for saying Signal gave metadata to the feds. He has a learning disability (regarded = deliberately misspelled R slur). They’re looking for someone else to corroborate the metadata claim.

        That’s my interpretation at least.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          16·
          4 months ago

          They did a blog post about how the feds had made a second attempt to get metadata from them and they could only provide two fields of information: the date the account was created and the last time it connected to the service.

          It’s in the public record as well if I’m not mistaken.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
          26·
          4 months ago

          “Retarded” is not a slur. It’s a medical term. “Idiot” is a slur that roughly means the same thing, though not nearly as far.

          • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
            92·
            4 months ago

            “Idiot” is a slur that roughly means the same thing

            “idiot”, “moron”, “cretin” and “imbecile” were all medical terms once and described different levels of intellectual disability, but they fell out of use and are now considered offensive. language changes, and context is important.

      • jollyrogue@lemmy.mlEnglish
        11·
        4 months ago

        Signal uses Google Cloud Platform for their servers, for one.

        Then I think it’s something to do with metadata.

      • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
        151·
        4 months ago

        They also added stories which, despite what the internet might have you believe, was one of the most popular feature requests on the Signal message boards for many years

        This was weird for me personally. I consider Signal a messaging tool which in my mind is separate from an actual social media app, so it was a bit of a head scratcher for me to see stories as a very popular feature request. I don’t really care about sharing “stories” in that format to my contacts or seeing theirs, but then again that’s just me.

    • Im_old@lemmy.worldEnglish
      420·
      4 months ago

      (almost) anything is possible with a CIA black fund budget. I’ve moved to Simplex chat and not looked back.