On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
As a happy user of Signal (no bugs or incidents from my viewpoint), I regardless chime in to say a word for decentralization. :)
Signal is centralized:
there is a single Signal implementation, with a single developing entity
you have to install its mobile version before you may run the desktop version
There exist protocols like Tox which go a step beyond Signal and offer more freedom -> have multiple clients from diverse makers, don’t have centralized registration, and don’t rely on servers to distribute messages - only to distribute contact information. Sometimes that can be useful.
As a happy user of Signal (no bugs or incidents from my viewpoint), I regardless chime in to say a word for decentralization. :)
Signal is centralized:
There exist protocols like Tox which go a step beyond Signal and offer more freedom -> have multiple clients from diverse makers, don’t have centralized registration, and don’t rely on servers to distribute messages - only to distribute contact information. Sometimes that can be useful.
Tox isn’t the most secure or private. I would go Simplex Chat
Session seems really good.
(Except their crypto token bullcrap)
Not anymore. They have made hostile changes are are screwing over there early adopters. It also lacks forward secrecy
And effectively cannot be selfhosted.