This article is just facepalm… Signal is just as much taking your contacts hostage as Whatsapp is.
And if most of their contacts are on Fb messenger at least there is a chance it can be reasonably bridged to XMPP or Matrix, which is really much harder for e2ee encrypted apps that don’t allow 3rd party clients like Signal or WhatsApp.
Edit: I would downvote, but at least the final conclusion is agreeable.
So you would rather have your messages be readable by Facebook that have to work a bit more to get your setup working with Signal. Setup that is only used by 5 people on the planet?
e2ee encrypted apps that don’t allow 3rd party clients like Signal or WhatsApp
Because FB messenger does? Everyone I know that uses a bridge to use messenger tell me that they spend a huge amount of time dealing with Facebook trying to ban bots…
I don’t disagree, but there is the theoretical approach and the pragmatic one. In a “world” where everyone but you uses FB messenger, it is good that FB messenger is somewhat easier to bridge to.
This article is just facepalm… Signal is just as much taking your contacts hostage as Whatsapp is.
And if most of their contacts are on Fb messenger at least there is a chance it can be reasonably bridged to XMPP or Matrix, which is really much harder for e2ee encrypted apps that don’t allow 3rd party clients like Signal or WhatsApp.
Edit: I would downvote, but at least the final conclusion is agreeable.
So you would rather have your messages be readable by Facebook that have to work a bit more to get your setup working with Signal. Setup that is only used by 5 people on the planet?
Because FB messenger does? Everyone I know that uses a bridge to use messenger tell me that they spend a huge amount of time dealing with Facebook trying to ban bots…
I don’t disagree, but there is the theoretical approach and the pragmatic one. In a “world” where everyone but you uses FB messenger, it is good that FB messenger is somewhat easier to bridge to.
But not everyone uses Messenger. I have been able to convince many of my friends and family to switch to Signal.