Gregory's Server> In Signal and Whatsapp you have the problem that your Phone number is known to anyone in a group chat
Not in Signal anymore. They finally solved it:
https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/
But agreed on privacy controls etc.
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 As long as Signal does not cooperate with local officials this would be also okay when not (like telegram) - but they do. Which means that your activist group can be anonymized with a search warrant against signal. https://signal.org/bigbrother/santa-clara-county/ Also Signal is again a central service and it is much better to do this error not again und bring up the next big entity that can screw us over.  @m @rysiek True. A question of threat-model to an extend? I use Stickers and Gifs quite extensively and a lot of ppl i know do this too. ppl just do not care about E2E, they care if their emotion they have can be easily represented and how much fun it makes to write with friends ... all Matrix clients fail miserably at this. Funnily enough this is also a reason why i don't use Discord that often. It is just not acceptable nowadays to press enter and your messages only appears after 2 seconds... and your client has layout recalculation errors. @rysiek @m @waldschnecke this is the reason I stayed with telegram after moving away from whatsapp and trying alternatives years ago.. I wasn't even able to really send videos and such on signal back then in addition to other functionality I considered essential for an IM app. telegram had it all and so i stayed. Turning on e2e manually is annoying but not a deal breaker. Having a half functioning app like signal was back then is one. Still I will try signal again since it seems to have improved a whole lot |
@rysiek @waldschnecke it has been partially fixed at best. You still can see the phone number in app versions from before the update.