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Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why? (techcrunch.com)
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[–] oftheair@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Not yet, it lacks a lot of the features Signal has and does not even have a proper ipad ui yet, nor proper profile syncing between devices.

If it ever has these it might be useable by the masses, until then it'll be only the interest of privacy nerds.

Though really the most important thing is its lack of audits and a transparency report like Signal has. How can we be sure that its encryption/other security is up to standards or they don't hand over anything to cops/courts without these two things? These are what most messengers fail at, especially open source decentralised ones to be fair.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's a cool toy, but when I was picking a messenger to sell my SO on, Simplex failed my basic requirements:

  • works on phone, desktop and laptop (messages arrive everywhere reliably)

Signal passed, so we went with that.

Simplex is still rad though, and I want to try building something on top of the protocol. I'm working on a P2P Reddit/Lemmy, and Simplex could be rad for DMs or something.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't personally have problems with reliability (same as for XMPP, Matrix however has broken for me a few times). As for multiple devices - I just use two, with identical names and profile pictures, one on laptop and one on phone.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, Simplex is reliable. My point is that if I have a conversion with my SO on one device and want to continue on another, I can't really do that. So messages will come to one or another. When I tried it, they had a CLI tool to get that working, but that's not going to be acceptable for my SO.

So I went with Signal. It's easy for my SO to use and has strong privacy protections.