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Can someone explain to me why we still use Signal? An app with dark pattern UX that constantly asks you to turn on notifications…
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Because it is the best private messenger
It isn't private.
Was literally built/sponsored by NSA and CIA to the tune if tens of million USD per year until recently.
And before you argue:
1) the information is public
2) no, I won't spoon feed and you look up yourself
3) CIA doesn't admit they spy on you. Yet is safe to consider they aren't sponsoring that messenger for our benefit and their main reason to exist is intelligence gathering
4) no point offending, nor stating half-truths on behalf of your agency employer.
You do your thing, I do mine.
This.
And we know you’re not a spook trying to discourage its use how??
isn't Signal open source?
The released codebase, yes. But you have no idea what they’re running on their server.
Never said you can't use it.
Just pointed the fact it was developed in tandem with intelligence agencies and financed every single year of existence by them. Just in case the obvious name "signal" isn't obvious enough of inside joke as it is.
Couldn't care less to convince you about my career profile. Just do whatever you want with fantastic piece of .. tech 😆
GM 🫂☕ yo no la uso mas
What do you use now?
Acabo de descargar de zapstore nospeak vamos a ver qué tal va. También estoy esperando que terminen de desarrollar bien whitenoise


Notifications are kinda fundamental for a messaging app; I wish signal notifications work better tbh
I miss calls all the time. The only notification is usually that I missed a call 😂
I read about this today, apparently they use silent push notifications to wake the app up, but they often get ignored due to battery optimizations. I'm working on a spec/implementation that will make real push notifications possible on nostr: 
GitHub
Add NIP 9a for push notifications by staab · Pull Request #2194 · nostr-protocol/nips
Read here
In what way? Functional or practical? Because I never use notifications 🤷♂️
Does it? I thought that push notifications were a way to circumvent the E2E encryption?
Would be cool if you could just use signal for everything and if the person your calling doesn’t have it, calls could optionally call or txt in the open. Basically have it replace phone and text app completely.
As soon as @npub17slp...w9r8 was available, I haven't touched signal one single time. Telegram too.
I have some things to say about Signal I will not say here.
but i have no other channel to say it privately unless IRL :\
It's ubiquitous (network effect) and kinda sorta secure-ish, better than just sms via telecom at least. <shrug>
Do I smell a heavy encryption, POW required, WOT enabled secure encrypted messaging platform coming? 🤔
GM!! Use deltachat
why not? because some people don't understand how open source software works?
if you don't like the way it operates, use Molly instead.
Isn’t that Android only