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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Signal.
Not necessarily because it’s better or because I like it. I actually don’t like it: Signal requiring a phone number really, REALLY doesn’t sit right with me, I hate not being able to back up my messages and having to hold the tiny button on the screen to record an audio or video message really sucks.
But it’s the easiest and most common of the truly private communication apps to get non-technical people to install.
You can definitely back up your messages… I have auto backups to my SD card…
You can backup your messages with signal… I do it whenever I switch to a new phone.
They claim it’s to generate your encryption key but then I don’t understand why you can’t just give it a passphrase instead. Pretty dumb for a so-called privacy related app.
Take a look at Simplex.
I took a look. It ate my battery three times faster than Whatsapp,
TemanTelegram and Signal cumulated.It’s a neat idea, but it’s not going to be a go-to messager anytime soon. They haven’t figured out how to efficiently deliver messages, large rooms have issues, and adding someone requires way more extra leg work than Signal.
It’s easy telling somebody your phone number. It’s harder to swap QR codes and hope that the system of relays will identify both of your devices as being online simultaneously.
That’s probably the flipside of polling-based updates.