The great thing with Signal is that not only is it more secure and operated by better people, but it's also flat out the better product in terms of usability and aesthetics. Also no weird AI bots, solid desktop version, and great videoconferencing.
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Kees van der Leun
Whatsapp, like Facebook, is owned by Zuckerberg's Meta.
Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.
Signal is owned by the Signal Foundation. And it's more secure. We have a choice.
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But school parents stuff and old family groups are hard to move, yeah.
https://signal.org/blog/sms-removal-android/
Ideally we'd upgrade the entire telephony network to run over Signal protocol. (With decentralized IDs instead of phone numbers.)
my only wish is to be able to hide the Calls tab (not the feature)
Slowly, painfully I try to pull colleagues and acquaintances across to Signal.
"I don't have anything to hide" stuff as well