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Oh man, I didn't think I'll actually see a reply with "u mad bro?" on this site. Anyway, good luck with your endeavors.
Hey, not my problem if you can’t take a few seconds to understand what people are writing.
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Do you know a better alternative that I can get my elderly parents and non-technical friends to use? I haven’t come across one and from my amateur POV it seems much better than WhatsApp or Telegram.
XMPP, as Matrix is pretty much centralized, unless you're fortunate enough to register outside of matrix.org. Both xmpp.org and jabber.org is no longer open for registration.
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The example you linked is about push notifications in general, nothing specific to the Signal app. If the concern is that your OS is compromised or spying on you, that's not something E2E encryption can protect against, whether it's Signal or any other app.
> nothing specific to the Signal app The specific part is that Signal forces Google and Apple on its users, and forces the specific kind of push notifications, too.
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The example you linked is about push notifications in general, nothing specific to the Signal app. If the concern is that your OS is compromised or spying on you, that's not something E2E encryption can protect against, whether it's Signal or any other app.
> nothing specific to the Signal app The specific part is that Signal forces Google and Apple on its users, and forces the specific kind of push notifications, too.
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Those aren't the only two options. You can buy a non-Google Android phone and install the APK on it.
How do I run Signal on my Librem 5?
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Having Google and Apple apps is fine. Having that be the only option, and the recommended option for high risk use cases is unforgivable.
Those aren't the only two options. You can buy a non-Google Android phone and install the APK on it.
Even if you do all that, it is not an official option, let alone a recommended one. The recommendation is to accept the google or apple terms of service.
Moxie even went as far as to say he would actively do anything in his power to discourage or stop the use of third party clients.
Potentially targeted users are set up to fail.
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>over 3,000,000,000 users Is that a typo or are you really implying half the human population use Signal? Edit: I misread, you are counting almost every messaging app user.
Yeah, whatsapp uses the same protocol.
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> nothing specific to the Signal app The specific part is that Signal forces Google and Apple on its users, and forces the specific kind of push notifications, too.
Signal works fine on degoogled LineageOS, so I'm not sure that's true.