I don’t really like Apple, but once in a while they do the right thing. This comes from the App store’s new labels on apps.

Signal just has “Contact info” under the “Data NOT linked to you” category. This is just the phone number + contact discovery.

UPDATE

There’s another post adding telegram here. This is what it looks like:

Pictogram: WhatsApp vs FB Messenger vs Instagram vs Signal vs Snapchat vs WeChat vs Telegram

    • Dreeg OcedamOP
      8•3 years ago

      Thanks for this. It’s a great explanation of why I recommend Signal more often than Matrix.

    • @Nevar@lemmy.ml
      7•3 years ago

      FluffyChat is making great strides in this space for Matrix in terms of UI quality. But agree it has the same problem as many open source projects, UI isn’t a priority and then people wonder why X project doesn’t take off.

    • @Soaku@lemmy.ml
      1•3 years ago

      Honestly Element looks and works so badly it always scares me off. It’s so slow, the formatting is fucked up and the app is very unintuitive.

    • @gorugorugo@lemmy.ml
      1•3 years ago

      Excellent post, thank you.

      I’ve been suggesting more people to use Signal and Element, everyone has chosen Signal as their way of communicating with me.

      Same here. I want Matrix to succeed more but the ease of setup for Signal is really the big deal breaker I imagine, plus not having to host or maintain a Matrix instance if you’re truly concerned about data management.