“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. 😀 👍

  • noodle@feddit.uk
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    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.

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    I got rid of Signal after they added cryptocurrency to their app.

    While I have no issues with cryptocurrency itself, it was a reminder that they have full control over the app. Now I happily use XMPP and Matrix for communication with friends and family.

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      Your friends and family use matrix? Ok, I understand, that you can pressure your family to use it, but are all your friends that geeky?

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    I think Signal is trying too hard to be secure, and they are missing a lot of convenience features.

    For example, you can’t migrate from Android to iOS or vice versa. You’ll lose all your messages and groups.

    Or it’s really hard to export all the photos someone sent you. I get that my iCloud library isn’t as secure, but I really want to make sure I don’t lose those photos if I lose my device. The photos aren’t that sensitive.

    The security notifications are also well-meaning, but hard to make sense of. You sometimes get notifications for changed security numbers, when people change their phone, sometimes folks show up twice in groups, etc. It’s all a bit hard to understand and difficult to use.

    And finally, it seems that messages are sometimes delivered a bit unreliably or with a long delay.

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      That’s what I always said. Signal only does one thing right, encryption, and that’s it. The rest isn’t great, they kept the server side code hidden for 1 year to implement the shitty MoxieCoin (so Moxie and his friends could get rich) and removed SMS recently.

      I moved to Telegram and the features are so great there’s no way I’ll ever use Signal. If you really need E2EE you can use it in personal chats. For regular chats, the fact that you have access to all your messages from everywhere is really convenient.

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        unless u can convince everyone to start a private chat… the chats are not private. at all. afaik.

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    My friends and I tried Signal after the whole WhatsApp privacy issue thing arose.

    Signal has been nothing but issues for us, plagued full of bugs. Images half the time would refuse to send. Videos would send but the audio would be slow even though the video itself was fine. Chat would load 200 messages prior then scroll down to the bottom on its own. The app doesn’t have a good way of handling media so it’d grow to be 50GB in size, then if you backup Signal messages that’d double in size again.

    Our group chat recently moved away from Signal, it’s not perfect but at least are media is sending fine.

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      I’m not sure when and what you were trying to send but I use it since at least 7 years and never had anything like that, maybe you should give it another try someday 👍

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        Pictures and videos. Memes.

        It’s not just me, everyone in the group chat of 8 people had the same issues. I won’t be giving Signal another chance.

        Issues have been raised for years with no fixes

        https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/issues/4387 - closed but not fixed https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9747 - 3 years old and not fixed

        There’s more but I cba to find the issues.

        Our group chat sends a lot of video memes. If they don’t play correctly then they don’t want to use Signal. We moved away from Signal 2 weeks ago. We’re in no rush to try it again.

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          I can’t reproduce any of the issues you’re mentioning. Signal is the only messenger that consistently “just works” over the last few years.

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            Ok, good for you. That doesn’t change the fact that out of a group chat of 8 people, it happened to every one of us, it’s happened to others and they raised issues on GitHub, and no one in my group wants to use Signal anymore.

            Or should I tell them “Xengi on Lemmy said it doesn’t happen to him so we must move back to Signal”?

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              Yes please go around tell people that. Everyone should know I said that. /s

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    My main messaging app is telegram, what would be the advantage in moving to signal? ( Pretending I manage to convince at least my main contacts )

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      Telegram chats aren’t e2ee by default. You’re essentially putting your chats on a server owned by a rich Russian person as a hobby.