Does anyone have any insight on the new board members?
Good for privacy?
Board Changes at Signal
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you build a truly private e2ee communications system, it is a little bit silly not to include a payments feature, as it's just an e2ee messaging use case (like stickers, or reactions, or stories, etc). There are lots of useful apps you can build atop e2ee messaging: location sharing, payments, group chats, secret sharing, etc.
It is silly to include it, I have other apps to do that without using cryptocurrency. It was a MobileCoin grift.
This is just anti-cryptocurrency bias; other payment systems require identity by law, which renders them much less useful for many people (and unworkable for most service providers who must then be regulated and licensed as money transmitters).
This was the only method available of doing payments inside the app in a way that met their product requirements.
It's fine to not like cryptocurrency; it's intellectually dishonest to accuse every project of crime without evidence.
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
They’re kinda legendary - and I can’t deny having a cool name does help with getting people to recognise you.
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I'm having a Mandela-moment - I could swear Moxie came-out as nonbinary or similar - but a quick duckduckgo search says otherwise, so apparently not. My mistake.
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#14Maybe we’ll finally get a backup feature on iOS?
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#15Seeing usage statistics, it seems that signal is dying slowly. It boomed during covid but almost no new chat is started there nowadays.
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#16Seeing usage statistics, it seems that signal is dying slowly. It boomed during covid but almost no new chat is started there nowadays.
Can you provide a link to the stats please?
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#17Seeing usage statistics, it seems that signal is dying slowly. It boomed during covid but almost no new chat is started there nowadays.
Does it matter if it is growing or shrinking? The users are getting usage, and the maintainers are providing a service. Is there a profit motive being unfulfilled?
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is silly to include it, I have other apps to do that without using cryptocurrency. It was a MobileCoin grift.
This is just anti-cryptocurrency bias; other payment systems require identity by law, which renders them much less useful for many people (and unworkable for most service providers who must then be regulated and licensed as money transmitters). This was the only method available of doing payments inside the app in a way that met their product requirements. It's fine to not like cryptocurrency; it's intellectually dis…
Crime is the perfectly sensible default assumption for cryptocurrency apps in 2023. Accusing people of anti-cryptocurrency bias is like saying someone has anti-forest-fire bias; there are certainly scenarios where such a bias could be unfair, but the burden of proof is on you, not the other guy.
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#19One thing Id really like to see is cross OS transfer. I feel Im locked in to my OS because of Signal right now as Ill lose messages. There are some messages I dont want lost and sadly having them in signal is a bummer.
This is where whatsapp just excels
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#20One thing Id really like to see is cross OS transfer. I feel Im locked in to my OS because of Signal right now as Ill lose messages. There are some messages I dont want lost and sadly having them in signal is a bummer. This is where whatsapp just excels
They should have a manual backup export to an encrypted format and make you responsible for the key