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JWZ weighs in on Signal again (www.jwz.org)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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JWZ previously:

See also: Why not Signal?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Signal is OK as a beginner privacy tool. Like with all gateway drugs or gateway animes or gateway videogames, you gotta start somewhere.

But it does is certainly a platform at-risk. Storage is US-centered, connectivity can be cut at any moment, and it's quite centralized to the point of forbidding 3p clients from interacting with the main Signal "network".

I come from the 90s. XMPP / Jabber is so much better.