Signal is finally tightening its desktop client's security by changing how it stores plain text encryption keys for the data store after downplaying the issue since 2018.

I really don’t understand why so many people like Signal. It’s an utter piece of shit in terms of UX, has questionable security practices, harvests phone numbers, and it’s located on a central server in US.

    • CCCP EnjoyerEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Matrix (as a protocol) appears to be very strong end-to-end encryption and is federated/decentralized. It can do encrypted and unencrypted chats for any number of users, so it can replace discord (which is not at all private or secure) and do private 1:1 communications (which I’d say is the best use case for it). It also does not require a phone number like signal does (which is usually tied to your legal identity and can be used for geolocation).

      I wouldn’t trust any electron apps, which is the framework the official Matrix client, Element, is built on. It’s fully open-source so there are other clients out there which may be better. Of course, the biggest weakness is probably going to be the OS/firmware of device you run it on.

      Edit: The desktop element clients rely on electron (which is a webapp framework built on google chrome, which is spyware). If you’re on android, the app also renders in chrome (which is spyware), but that matters a bit less because android itself is a massive pile of spyware. iOS is also spyware that openly just copies all your files to a server in the US where they are “scanned for very bad things”, retained indefinitely and may be accessed by your favourite state agencies without warrant.

      • Muad'DibberMA
        5·
        2 months ago

        On android, element, and it’s newer version element X, are native android, not electron at least.

    • ☭ Comrade Pup Ivy 🇨🇺
      5·
      2 months ago

      Session is, fine, but the app can get really laggy at times of you are in it for a long period of time, pr especially if you scroll to an older message, this is my experience using it

    • ImnecomradeEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Isn’t Signal very similar to Telegram but focused on “security” and less features? Revolt is more like Discord. Matrix feels more similar to XMPP, and I see it as a compromise between Telegram style and Discord style. Matrix works well as a one to one chat as well as a team collaboration chat, but audio and video chats are very laggy. Self-hosted Jitsi would serve as an alternative to video and audio chats.