Why not Signal?
dessalines.github.io
A few essays on communism

We as a community must stop recommending Signal. For far too long we have blindly followed this app without a second thought. It has created a cult of followers, when there are much better apps out there for us to use.

https://archive.is/Lhe24 archive for the essay

This essay was posted to r/Privacy and subsequently removed and censored for literally No Reason. This is honestly really scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/ https://archive.ph/FZr1d

I am seriously hoping we can have a discussion about this on lemmy. @TheAnonymouseJoker , I know you from r/PrivateLife, and thought you’d be the one to go to about this. Thanks for being open in the past and not bowing to the inner circle of reddit cringelords.

I also am preparing an essay of my own about a complicit honeypot-ish web going on between Signal, Skiff, r/Privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, etc. They have a crazy little cabal that is very creepy. Any materials are welcome. Every time i turn over a stone i find two more. More to come.

  • Pablo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ok, so what is better with other apps and why shouldn’t one recommend signal over the apps people use (say Whatsapp, telegram)

    • gonzo0815@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      OP linked a whole essay about the second part of your question.

      An alternative would be matrix, which can be used with the elements app on your phone.

      • PM_ME_UR_PCAPS@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Matrix, where it’s ambiguous if you’re sending encrypted or unencrypted messages, disappearing and view once messages aren’t really a thing, and the server logs all metatata. Much better than signal.

        • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          01·
          1 year ago

          To be fair, all of that stuff can be controlled by the server host. Too bad you have to be the server host to be sure.

    • bernard@lemmy.filmEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Even if Signal might be better for those people’s current threat model, people’s habits are hard to change. Good luck getting them onto a better decentralized protocol later. Most people will not take the time to understand the importance of decentralization and think we are just making their lives difficult. I regret getting people onto Signal mainly for this reason.