Signal is centralized and requires a phone number. This is potentially impactful to your anonymity. So, for example if the recipients device is comprised that encryption doesn’t mean much and you may be identifiable.
All that said, I use Signal. But it’s good to know it’s shortcomings.
Edit: added potentially. You could certainly have a number not associated with your identity.
anonymity, privacy, and security are not inclusive of the other and anonymity is not in scope of signal. SimpleX would be a better option if that’s your goal, although being in beta still, I can’t fully recommend it
I wish I could say the same but if you want to date you have to here. I despise and absolutely hate how you have to you use a phone number to register. And then every contact you have can add you to a group so everyone there now can have your number.
I’ve had a stalker before and I hate that stuff like that makes it trivially easy for her to get my number again. I literally can’t understand how women are okay with absolutely shitty systems like this.
I really can’t repeat enough how much I strongly hate WhatsApp and how everyone else thinks it’s so good for exactly the reason that I hate it. It’s too easy to send messages despite me never giving you my number to begin with. SMS is the same but you can’t add me to a group without my permission and share my number with a group of people I don’t know.
If you live in most of Europe or definitely Latin America, yeah, it is so popular it’s kind of inconceivable not to use it, or at least hard to imagine. I genuinely don’t understand how people in the US communicate.
I’ve used SMS exactly 3 times in my life, all 10+ years ago. My phone plan doesn’t even include SMS anymore. It boggles my mind that people use SMS in the US, and I mean that seriously.
I’ve somehow never used WhatsApp.
You must not be from Europe or Brazil then
pls send help
Oh, that recruitment agent sometime ago.
Are you using facebook?
No
Whatsapp?
No
Xing?
No
…
Hey, just send me an E-Mail.
Gigachad.
I on the other hand was actually pleasantly surprised when I got contacted by a recruiter on Matrix , that was the best feeling ever
You don’t want their help if they are from the US.
US heavily uses SMS still.
No privacy at all.
That means the government has full access to all your messages.
Whatsapp on the other hand has E2E for everything.
It was just a joke phrase, but yeah fuck SMS, didn’t know it’s so commonplace in the US
Me too
Same. I hate all these messaging apps people use. Unless you need security, then just use the one your phone already has. Otherwise use signal.
Signal is centralized and requires a phone number. This is potentially impactful to your anonymity. So, for example if the recipients device is comprised that encryption doesn’t mean much and you may be identifiable.
All that said, I use Signal. But it’s good to know it’s shortcomings.
Edit: added potentially. You could certainly have a number not associated with your identity.
anonymity, privacy, and security are not inclusive of the other and anonymity is not in scope of signal. SimpleX would be a better option if that’s your goal, although being in beta still, I can’t fully recommend it
I wish I could say the same but if you want to date you have to here. I despise and absolutely hate how you have to you use a phone number to register. And then every contact you have can add you to a group so everyone there now can have your number.
I’ve had a stalker before and I hate that stuff like that makes it trivially easy for her to get my number again. I literally can’t understand how women are okay with absolutely shitty systems like this. I really can’t repeat enough how much I strongly hate WhatsApp and how everyone else thinks it’s so good for exactly the reason that I hate it. It’s too easy to send messages despite me never giving you my number to begin with. SMS is the same but you can’t add me to a group without my permission and share my number with a group of people I don’t know.
How though
No idea. It’s just not a platform anyone in my life has used in a manner that dragged me in.
Cool
Two letters. US.
They use SMS still.
Unless everyone they know has iPhones.
Then it’s iMessage.
Surely it can’t be so popular it’s inconceivable to you that someone hasn’t used it.
If you live in most of Europe or definitely Latin America, yeah, it is so popular it’s kind of inconceivable not to use it, or at least hard to imagine. I genuinely don’t understand how people in the US communicate.
You text someone. What’re you talking about?
I’ve used SMS exactly 3 times in my life, all 10+ years ago. My phone plan doesn’t even include SMS anymore. It boggles my mind that people use SMS in the US, and I mean that seriously.
If you send an SMS in Europe, you get no answer most of the time
All the better
It is. To stay in contact with anyone you need whatsapp.
Well I’m glad that isn’t happening here, because I would just have to miss everything.