I got nothing for Signal. I used my brother's phone number but the 6 digit verification number just doesn't come.. He doesn't even know what Signal app is, so I doubt he used his phone number to sign up.

Guess this isn't the day to meddle with Signal. "No Signal" I guess :(

I'mma stick with SimpleX chat. This and the email. I dunno about Matrix+Element though

@Em0nM4stodon @signalapp

I have nothing against supporting projects enhancing pivacy.. But I've stopped donating to Signal myself after they seemed to not care about feedback from their users.

On one side, they seemed to try to make Signal become more like a lookalike to iMessage, removing useful features like different background colours in group chats. At some point they even had the same colour on the chat names being the same colour. And when colours on the chat names arrived it was mentioned as a group chat improvement. Yes, it was an improvement - but it's still way far behind what it used to be. The reason for removing the individual coloured background? It made the code simpler (while colours on the chat names seemed to not be a coding problem).

Then they removed SMS support on Android ... which resulted in all my non-privacy/non-tech contacts starting to send me SMSes instead of using Signal. Which means now I have two apps for handling messaging and my non-tech users are confused and just use SMS by default. The reason? SMS is insecure! Yes, it is - but opportunistic encryption will always help non-tech users. For all my non-tech contacts, this move ended up far worse in the real world.

Since I now have to use more apps anyhow, My closest contacts and I have moved over to @simplex instead. It's a very different architecture which is more redundant to Signal, with far better privacy coverage. And I barely use Signal these days.

And don't even get me started on the mobile payment with their own cryptocurrency implementation in a chat app.

I know #SimplexChat will most likely end up as a paid service in the future. But the developers there at least seems to want to listen to their users and interact with them. And when something is not going to happen or taking long time to happen, there are much more solid and real technical arguments to why. That makes it far more easy to contribute financially to SimplexChat.

But YMMV. We have all different experiences and needs.

The only thing which is for sure - #E2EE messaging will become a must in future. And politicians will struggle to accept that their policies won't work to control encrypted messages.

And we need to have apps helping users to use the right approach with as little knowledge about #E2EE as possible. It need to be as few apps as possible, and it need to do opportunistic encryption as much as possible. Upgrade automatically from unencrypted to encrypted communication.

Quiero invitar a que respondáis con vuestros grupos favoritos en #español (propios o no) y/o invitaciones de amistad de #SimpleX / #SimplexChat y #Matrix en los comentarios bajo este mismo.

@simplex

Can the #private #secure #simplex #chat msgr be blocked by countries like how Signal #Msgr was recently blocked by #Russia?

If so, does #simpleXchat have a workaround to allow #sxc users to still communicate with each other? Signal #IM has a global #self-hosted #proxy programme for the broader global community for volunteers who can spin up a proxy to keep the #Signal chatter flowing in those affected regions.

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