What's next ? What happens when Signal is bought by Microsoft and Discord is bought by Google ?
Signal can't be bought. They're a non-profit org
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#12I hope https://berty.tech will be awesome
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#13Telegram is a downgrade in terms of both security and privacy. Just leaving the comment for people who consider it. It's an excellent platform and a joy to use but I personally refuse to use it.
Downgrade in terms of privacy from WhatsApp? Some explanation is needed for such a bold statement.
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#14Telegram is a downgrade in terms of both security and privacy. Just leaving the comment for people who consider it. It's an excellent platform and a joy to use but I personally refuse to use it.
If it's good enough for organised criminals and to anger various governments, it's good enough for me
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#15iMessage?
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#16What's next ? What happens when Signal is bought by Microsoft and Discord is bought by Google ?
Signal can not be bought by someone unless the regulators approve it. WhatsApp was bought only after an explicit approval by regulators.
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#17I miss matrix in the options. It's the only modern network that still really cares about federation
I've tried many, many times to figure out how to use Matrix, and every time I can't make headway. I haven't included it in the options because after trying every six months or so to figure out how to talk one of my colleagues through it I've just given up. Maybe it's time to try again, but all the docs seem to be written by people who assume the wrong things about their readers. Edit: OK, I've added it.
What do you mean? What kind of problems are you running into? Elements has a trivial 2 taps flow to get to "new direct message", so I'm curious what could go wrong.
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#18nobody in my network uses any of the above how are we supposed to switch? by being the weirdo that only wants to use certain platforms?
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#19Email? Text messages? Phone calls?
Those are the only alternatives with enough penetration to rival WhatsApp (that I know of).
I know that they are not secure, but neither is WhatsApp.
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#20I spent a lot of time testing Signal and it’s come a long way.
One great advantage over WhatsApp is emoji reactions on messages like Slack does to avoid the dreaded “haha” taking up threads.
Signal seems to support all media I threw at it, and has an awesome MacOS desktop client.
Downsides were no web search for group icons (a great feature of WhatsApp) and live location sharing.
Overall I am happy to have nearly all of my conversations migrated to Signal over the preview few weeks.