“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”
This isn’t an ad, I wasn’t paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍
I use Signal but it’s on its own path to becoming enshittified too. Less like Reddit, more like Firefox, the people in charge are just clueless about the signal userbase.
It won’t be long until there’s a shift to an alternative because the current president of the signal foundation is one step away from turning it into Snapchat.
Instead of pumping money into increasing awareness or enhancing reliability of the service, the Signal team have wasted effort on features that nobody asked for, including its very own crypto shitcoin (a major red flag for any company). They also remove features people relied on, such as SMS support.
It’s hard to trust the Signal team when they continually disappoint in such egregious ways.
I pretty much dropped Signal after they announced they were losing SMS support. It’s hard enough to sell my peers on another messaging app as it is, and Signal’s UI choices have been frustrating from the get go.
For what it’s worth, Google has picked up the same or better end-to-end encryption as Signal for users of its default messenger but will likely never do away with SMS support.
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/24/messaging-is-not-androids-mess-iphone-problem-with-lockheimer/
Oh no…
I’ve switched to a dumb Nokia phone two years ago, so can’t use signal but I’ve always liked the service, I’m so sad to hear that… I’ve always assumed that one day I’ll be getting the Punkt Pigeon phone, but these news are making me reconsider. Oh, no SMS support. Then there’s zero reason to use signal, then. I’m never convincing all of my friends to switch, and I don’t need another messaging app for the two that do.
I thought that they do know what they’re doing, but crypto? Really? I wouldn’t mind if they moved Signal to use smart contracts for messaging, but call they have to come up with is crypto? Lol.
You do not need crypto to call with it. It is simply a payment mechanism. I don’t see anything wrong with it. If anyone is uninterested, they can simply turn it off or not use it. Conversely, burning up fees to interact with smart contracts to message is what seems more silly to me. There’d be no opting out of that.
You are right, I always forget about the fuel cost. Ever since I learned how blockchain and smart contracts work, I really really want to like that idea. But I can’t come up with almost anything aside from like voting that would not be better done in a centralized way, and would be suitable for mass and prolonged use. That was why I mentioned it, because maybe it would’ve worked to use smart contracts from messaging. But then again, storing data and fuel is expensive, so it’s again a bad idea.