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Signal App
Essentially a privacy-friendly messenger app like Telegram
Yet, the furry community (even yours truly) barely uses it, and one guy is urging people to move to this app, which is safer than Telegram.
Over the last month where the Telegram CEO was arrested and where one of my friend's Discord got hacked, I am asking you guys who use this app if this is worth using as the app claims to be.
Looks interesting. Does it have one-to-many channels and public groups joinable via a link like telegram? IMO it'd really need both of those features to really be a viable alternative to Telegram for furries
I find it hilarious that TG never encrypted group chats except to/from a hub (server can see everything), yet even some country's militaries were using it. It makes sense because of bandwidth costs, though.
Signal is kind of well-known, too.
To do E2E properly with group chat, you have to send each person a differently-encrypted message, or have a session key encrypted differently for each user. Since they are all supposed to be able to see it, anyways, and you just don't want the server getting a key, that session key is far more sensible than sending different content to each of them. Which BTW, potentially exposes IP addresses. XD
kora_viridian said:
Signal, like Telegram, apparently requires a phone number to sign up. That article proposes that if you want to use a number other than your "regular" phone number to sign up for Signal, you can get one from a well-known champion of user privacy, Google, or a well-known spammer, Twilio. Hmm.I wouldn't worry too much. The French cops probably don't have a $5 wrench .
If only there was a way to not have a CEO to apply that wrench to, if only...
Bumping this. It's quite a bummer that Signal doesn't have groups yet. And I don't know if there was any updates on the Telegram CEO and if there are any agreements on this.
simplex has also been on the rise as well, though less well known and with less features it's just about gold standard in private chat.
XMPP - Free Software you can actually trust! Wow! GPL GNU Richard Stallman Linux type stuff - Got your attention? Let's begin.
Gajim - Windows
Siskin - Apples
Conversations - Android (use f-droid)
OMEMO encryption: Activate it.
Add me if you want.
XMPP clients are poor in quality.
GPL, GNU, Richard Stallman, and Linux are poor in quality as well.
fowen46015 said:
XMPP clients are poor in quality.
GPL, GNU, Richard Stallman, and Linux are poor in quality as well.
LOL that sounds like "Prove me wrong" clickbait on YT.
