Notices by jenkinse (jenkinse@mastodon.social)

@dalias @ambiguous_yelp @joelanman

Where can I find the roomlist? I'm not sure I would recognize the people on the roomlist, but its worth taking a look at.

@dalias @joelanman @ambiguous_yelp

Thanks for the suggestion of Cwtch which I will look into. But absent any evidence, I consider the suggestion that Matrix, Delta Chat and SimpleX are insecure, have bad UX, and are all pedo-coinbro-ware to be FUD and also disrespectful to the developers

@dalias @joelanman @ambiguous_yelp

I have yet to see how cryptographic properties prevent Signal from mapping your contacts and analyzing your metadata, if Signal and Intel were compromised

@dalias @sammi@libranet.de @joelanman @ambiguous_yelp

The need to sign up with a burner phone and burner number just for basic anonymity is an example of a barrier to privacy which shouldn't exist. Many people can't afford even one phone plan, having to pay for a second phone and second phone plan puts basic privacy out of reach. Privacy shouldn't be a privelege for the rich. By contrast platforms like Matrix, Delta Chat, and SimpleX do much better in this aspect (tho SimpleX leadership is questionable)

@dalias @sammi@libranet.de @joelanman @ambiguous_yelp

Being merely sufficient for most people's threat models is one thing, but resisting the same forces of enshittification we see with other centralized platforms is another thing.

Signal doesn't currently give anything to surveillance capitalists as far as we know, but this assessment is based more on vibes and marketing claims then Signal's technical merit, which is problematic.

@dalias @ambiguous_yelp @joelanman

True their website doesn't exactly pass a "vibes test" but do we have anything more concrete to go by?

@ambiguous_yelp @dalias @joelanman

Who are the dev team and why are they right wing ass hats? I'd like to learn more about this, since SimpleX seems better then Signal in all other aspects. If you can provide further details and examples or links illustrating their right wing ideology or bad behavior I would appreciate this!

@dalias @ambiguous_yelp @joelanman

That seems like wishful thinking. Signal foundation has signaled clearly and consistently for a long time that they never intend to let you create an account without a phone number

@pluralistic

Its definitely much better then Facebook and Twitter but to have the "fire exit of all fire exits" it should at least have nomadic identity built in, there is still room for improvement, you shouldn't need your server to authorize your migration

@biancotitanio @nachtet @AlexGallagher