There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.
This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.
Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current “Linux = Ubuntu” .deb repo.
To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.
https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/why_not_signal.md
Oh look an essay full of fearmongering that adds nothing to the discussion. Thanks for contributing!
Tbf it does suggest several alternatives.
It’s by one of the Lemmy founders btw
Doesn’t make him automatically correct however.
those were some bullshit bullet points lmao
They’re actually very good points.
The problem is that all the suggested alternatives are unworkable for adoption by the general public (they require stuff like Tor, self-hosting etc.)
The appeal of signal is it is a good option (may have flaws but it is better than say discord) and it’s pretty easy to get normies using it, all the other alternatives you mentioned are obscure and convincing normies such as friends and family to use them is much harder, and while signal isn’t perfect, it’s certainly better than whatsapp or other proprietary solutions
How do you read this without JS?
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