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Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by thekyle »

eitland wrote: post #413
didibus wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Telegram is not a secure chat application though. It's more similar to Facebook Messenger. You're better off using WhatsApp over it if you care about security. Or obviously Signal. When it comes to Matrix, it's a little trickier. Riot, the most common Matrix client does E2E encryption on DMs and invite only rooms. What I'm not sure is what happens if you send a private message to someone who is using Matrix client th…

> Telegram is not a secure chat application though. Fun fact: I didn't even write that. The rest is not so much for you personally as for a number Signal fans: I get it, I get it: Signal is best . But seriously: do you Signal fans have to derail every conversation? Do you have to take a jab at every other messenger at every given opportunity? Or can we agree that there's room for more than one solution? Because physi…

> do you Signal fans have to derail every conversation?

I know this happens a lot in other threads about other messengers, so it's probably a fair comment. But I find there is something ironic about someone commenting on a story about Signal that they use Telegram and then complaining that other users talking about Signal are derailing the conversation.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by pmlnr »

chopin24 wrote: post #265

For all of you saying we should switch to Matrix, please outline the user sign up flow in your comment. Be detailed. Your audience is your 50 something aunt who calls her iPad her Facebook.

If matrix.org were to see this level of influx of users, given their constant scaling problems, they would be down in minutes.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by bombcar »

mawise wrote: post #490
somehnguy wrote: post #479

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Not as impactful as a realtime donation but I recently changed my Amazon Smile charity to the Signal Foundation after a few years with my previous selection. I was surprised to learn they were an available option. I also installed a browser extension to automatically bring me to smile.amazon when buying anything on Amazon - so far it has had no weird glitchiness when not buying something and works exactly as advertis…

I was jumping through similar hoops for a while to get Amazon smile donations, but then I looked at their numbers for how much gets donated and it was a pretty trivial amount. I don't remember what I found (anyone have any stats on Amazon smile donation percentages?) but I decided it wasn't worth my effort compared to adding an extra few dollars to my direct donations.

It’s a small percent but adds up - I’ve “smiled” hundreds of dollars.

I don’t use the add on and just type “smi” to autocomplete the domain.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by reaperducer »

mawise wrote: post #490
somehnguy wrote: post #479

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not as impactful as a realtime donation but I recently changed my Amazon Smile charity to the Signal Foundation after a few years with my previous selection. I was surprised to learn they were an available option. I also installed a browser extension to automatically bring me to smile.amazon when buying anything on Amazon - so far it has had no weird glitchiness when not buying something and works exactly as advertis…

I was jumping through similar hoops for a while to get Amazon smile donations, but then I looked at their numbers for how much gets donated and it was a pretty trivial amount. I don't remember what I found (anyone have any stats on Amazon smile donation percentages?) but I decided it wasn't worth my effort compared to adding an extra few dollars to my direct donations.

I don't have percentages, but the charity I have marked for my Amazon Smile donations gets about $100,000 a quarter. So it works for some groups.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by pmlnr »

sean_pedersen wrote: post #94

Time to jump ship! Use element / matrix an open, decentralized, end-to-end encrypted chat protocol with slick clients for Android, iOS, Desktop & Web: https://element.io/ Also easy to self-host a server, if you need full control: $ mkdir -p ~/synapse $ pip3.6 install --user jinja2 matrix-synapse $ cd ~/synapse $ python3.6 -m synapse.app.homeserver \ --server-name my.domain.name \ --config-path homeserver.yaml \ --gen…

> Also easy to self-host a server, if you need full control:

Recommended specs will include 16GB RAM only for synapse, SSD storage, etc.

If someone wants to self-host, start with Prosody and XMPP, not with Matrix.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by lazyasciiart »

bt1a wrote: post #468
Daniel_sk wrote: post #401

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Stock with ticker SIGL surged 6000% on Jan 11 - investors thought it's the Signal Messenger. Same like the wrong Zoom company.

What's even more wild is that the executives/directors didn't sell any of their stock on the massive increase.

Quite likely they aren't allowed to sell whenever they want, they may be subject to an open trading window, or a fixed sell-down plan over the year.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by Arathorn »

t-writescode wrote: post #463
Arathorn wrote: post #340

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> The matrix developers run a push service, which all servers have to talk to to push notifications to their iOS app, even if you run your own instance. This isn't really true: there are lots of Matrix iOS clients out there, and each run their own separate push server. Only Element iOS's push server is run by the 'matrix developers', and if you are worried about that then (if you are an iOS developer) you can build y…

Oh, okay, so just to confirm this means that push servers *AREN'T* getting any information about the messages being sent to users? The contents of the message, who sent it, etc?

They don't get the contents of the message, and I don't believe (off the top of my head) that they get told who sent the message. It's just a "you received a message" notification, that the phone then has to expand into the actual notification itself by talking direct to the server.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by pmlnr »

sschueller wrote: post #487
arunc wrote: post #36

Why not do a some kind of lazy P2P instead of proactive P2P? IIRC, Signal calls are P2P.

https://jami.net/ decentralized, encrypted, p2p, no phone number required. I'm not sure why nobody uses it.

Because it's incredibly unstable, and horrible to use? Yes, tried it, even earlier, when it was called GNUsomething.

EDIT Ring. It was called Ring.

Re: Signal is having technical difficulties

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Post by LTL_FTC »

earth2mars wrote: post #98
alan5 wrote: post #71

I just donated to Signal after seeing the error banner in the app. I realised I was more than happy to pay WhatsApp's yearly charge back in the pre-Facebook days (think it was 70p or so?). Figured I could give Signal a few quid every now and then, maybe keep a server up for a few seconds :) Donation link should anyone be interested: https://signal.org/donate/

me too. just donated. please comment below if you also donated. let's keep this thing running! Its personal interest now, because I moved bunch of groups from whatsapp and its not working now! but at the same I love these guys for what they do.

Done with flying colors.
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