• jet@hackertalks.com
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    1 year ago

    Perfect doesn’t have to be the enemy of good. Signal is Good, it could be better. There is a architectural weakness. There will be some other messenger that ticks all the boxes in the future, hopefully they will take what signal has done and continue to improve it.

    Signal is the easy for adoption because of the phone number as identity, but its weak because of the centralization. Its currently the best option. I don’t want to spend effort moving normal people to Briar or Session until its absolutely necessary, or those applications improve the onboarding experience.

    https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

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      1 year ago

      You can’t send voice messages and videos or any type of file except for photos on Briar. I don’t have a problem with that myself, but it uses a lot of battery power.

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        1 year ago

        Briar is a long way from being generally useful to typical users, but i think its a gold standard example of something that is unkillable.