The divide in these comments perfectly encapsulates why nothing ever gets done when it comes to privacy
this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
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This thread is the worst case of astroturfing I’ve seen on this site so far, holy shit.
I dont understand the downvotes on some of these anti-signal arguments. There are a number of very valid arguments against Signal if privacy is your chief concern: they have centralised servers, they've been extremely lax with adding their production updates to their publicly available source code on github, they receive funding from RFA.
Yup, would probably get more people to join by just using Discord at this point.
You won't see previous messages, but that doesn't mean the group is dead lol
Don't want Signal with randoz. Try SimpleX, easy mutli-accounts.
Why not a matrix server?
Or Simplex Chat
Would be the most appropriate in this case as people don't need to hide when talking in public groups
Seen a lot of different opinion in this, but personnaly I would recommended this.
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SimpleX, for the most privacy (but not really appropriate here) Wouldn't use any of threema wire and else, as it's not the best.
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A good option in the case of this project is a matrix server, if the group is public it's the best thing. Try to host it somewhere else than matrix.org. Will have no real hiding but surely anonymously if done correctly
SimpleX maybe 😁
Yeah not doing Signal with randos.
That is indeed a massive improvement, but until they allow multiple profiles per number - that would still mean either using the same account with internet randos as I do with IRL friends, or renting a whole other number and risking losing the account once the ownership of the number expires.
Not usable until they support unifiedpush. I won't burn my battery with simplex.
Actually it's not burning my battery so much, but I can understand
Why not something xmpp based? Or matrix