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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As long as they continue to require a phone number they should stop pretending to care about users privacy.
And their bullshit excuse for dropping SMS support.
“It was too expensive from an engineering standpoint”. Nonsense, Android handled it, your app merely reads and writes to the SMS database via an API.
Or are you telling me the free SMS apps like Handcent, QuickSMS, etc, had a massive engineering team?
This is when I stopped using Signal, when this lie was so blatant, I can no longer trust them.
Old man yelling at clouds
SMS is a dead technology as it should be. It’s not private or secure in any way and the apps you listed probably just don’t give a fuck about implementing it in a way that is.
If Signal had just 1 person working on keeping it alive it would still be money that could be spent elsewhere. Like the username feature I had been patiently waiting for, which was delivered recently and is a great addition.
TIL…
Bye bye, Giphy.
Most of the cost from not moving from requiring phone to be connected to people’s accounts and not desiring for the central server to federate with others.
According to the article, like most companies, it’s the people that are the most expensive part at $19M.
Yep in the last two or so years it should have become even more clear for people how important federation is.
This is from one year ago. But not like they wouldn’t need money this year.