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ticky
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look I am not going to defend Telegram or its owners but tbh the ongoing chat network fragmentation makes me really sad. Telegram sucks, Discord is frustrating, Signal has never taken privacy seriously, Matrix is poorly quality-controlled, XMPP is not ready for the modern world, IRC is worse. what's left? not fucking much.

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the problem with trying to fix this is that it immediately leads to creating another standard, and since people are monsters want rich text and infinite picture storage forever.................

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Raptor
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Signal has absolutely made some compromises to make it more user friendly, aiming for more of a herd immunity method than truly inviolable security. They did at least finally allow you to hide your phone number.

I will note, for most folks, the largest risk to security is still ultimately the same risk you run with any group, which is that of someone intentionally betraying trust.

One-on-one Signal conversations are pretty safe though, presuming the person in trustworthy. Not as safe as a conversation in the woods after going there on foot, without any electronics, in disguises swapped at multiple public places along the way.

But it's pretty secure assuming their phone shipped with hardware encryption and they're not running a desktop client.

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ticky
@ticky

I did not say security, it's specifically the phone number thing I am frustrated by. I don't want people adding me by username to then suddenly know my phone number. Two steps forward, one back.

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