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The divide in these comments perfectly encapsulates why nothing ever gets done when it comes to privacy

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This thread is the worst case of astroturfing I’ve seen on this site so far, holy shit.

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I dont understand the downvotes on some of these anti-signal arguments. There are a number of very valid arguments against Signal if privacy is your chief concern: they have centralised servers, they’ve been extremely lax with adding their production updates to their publicly available source code on github, they receive funding from RFA.

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Yup, would probably get more people to join by just using Discord at this point.

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You won’t see previous messages, but that doesn’t mean the group is dead lol

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Don’t want Signal with randoz. Try SimpleX, easy mutli-accounts.

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Why not a matrix server?

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Or Simplex Chat

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Would be the most appropriate in this case as people don’t need to hide when talking in public groups

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Seen a lot of different opinion in this, but personnaly I would recommended this.

  • SimpleX, for the most privacy (but not really appropriate here) Wouldn’t use any of threema wire and else, as it’s not the best.

  • A good option in the case of this project is a matrix server, if the group is public it’s the best thing. Try to host it somewhere else than matrix.org. Will have no real hiding but surely anonymously if done correctly

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SimpleX maybe 😁

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Yeah not doing Signal with randos.

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That is indeed a massive improvement, but until they allow multiple profiles per number - that would still mean either using the same account with internet randos as I do with IRL friends, or renting a whole other number and risking losing the account once the ownership of the number expires.

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Not usable until they support unifiedpush. I won’t burn my battery with simplex.

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Actually it’s not burning my battery so much, but I can understand

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