Shocking? As if we didn’t all know this.

Not yet, it lacks a lot of the features Signal has and does not even have a proper ipad ui yet, nor proper profile syncing between devices.

If it ever has these it might be useable by the masses, until then it’ll be only the interest of privacy nerds.

Though really the most important thing is its lack of audits and a transparency report like Signal has. How can we be sure that its encryption/other security is up to standards or they don’t hand over anything to cops/courts without these two things? These are what most messengers fail at, especially open source decentralised ones to be fair.

Yes.

Oh, that’s yucky. Thanks for the information, we haven’t used it since it got bought by Facebook.

Thank you!

We have never come across one that is as easy to use as Signal and has no problems with encryption, either that it can have its encryption turned off, it breaks easily or that it makes dubious claims with few-no audits to back them up.

Plus the common person enjoys the fun features of Signal or other easy messengers, most decentralised messages do not have these features, are indefinitely working on them or make them not as easy to use, leading to most being uninterested in those messengers.

We have tried most if not all of them, than most and they are definitely lacking as much as we wish they were not. Decentralised encrypted (or partially encrypted) messengers always seem to have problems whether it’s with their encryption, moderation tools, connectivity or the lack of other features.

The only real differences we can think of is:

Whatsapp unlike Signal doesn’t have usernames meaning a phone number must be used to contact others on it, and that Whatsapp’s report feature shares the unencrypted message and surrounding messages with Meta to give context for the report.

Source?

We aren’t human as stated in our profile. However, we appreciate you trying 🙂

None of us are a guy, thank you though. We appreciate it!

Not really, apologies we came off that way.

We just haven’t seen them where we live, online or offline, though we would really like to.

Thank you, hope you have a great week!

That assumes we are in the US, whomp.

Good luck finding them though, we’ve never found a place either offline or online that sells them.

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We completely agree, Mozilla should not be run like it is i.e. a Tech Startup and should allow donations to Firefox directly.

It should become a worker owned co-op as that would make a lot of things better in the long run.

It’s been clear for a while now, their current way of operating just isn’t going to work and hasn’t been, especially since they’re adding rubbish no-one wants or needs e.g. the private adverts thing.