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Nemeski to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago

Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

www.wired.com

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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

www.wired.com

Nemeski to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 9 months ago
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On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
  • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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    Nobody is going to use Signal when it lacks so many features. Feels like MSN messenger compared to it’s peers.

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      what do you mean? i use it a lot and it works great, photos, videos, phone calls, optional temporary location sharing with friends, and encryption.

      what features do you want it to have that it’s lacking?

      • Bob Robertson IX
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        25•9 months ago

        Don’t forget, cross-platform!

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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          10•9 months ago

          i totally forgot, another great point

      • @trailee@sh.itjust.works
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        23•9 months ago

        Don’t forget voice calls! It has some rough edges there (my audio doesn’t always connect successfully, etc), but when it works the codec sounds better than a standard phone call and there’s no mass surveillance. I use it in place of phone calls for all the people in my network who have it, including my immediate family.

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          that’s a great point, i use the voice calls daily.

          added above.

        • @Valmond@lemmy.world
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          6•9 months ago

          And video! Group video too!

      • @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I’m guessing they probably want stickers or something

        Edit: apparently this is available on signal so I have no fucking idea then

        • @anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          2•9 months ago

          Yeah you can even make your own stickers for free

      • @vinyl@lemmy.world
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        12•9 months ago

        Yea we heavily use it in the army

        • @Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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          very cool, i had no idea.

          free, convenient, reliable encryption.

      • Allah
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        3•9 months ago

        My guess is it heavily private and does not have channels

        • noodle (he/him)
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          7•9 months ago

          does not have channels

          except that it does. you can make a public group with a shareable link, and change permissions so that only the admins can post.

        • @ninjaturtle@lemmy.today
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          1•9 months ago

          deleted by creator

    • noodle (he/him)
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      16•9 months ago

      very weak bait

      • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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        1•9 months ago

        Judging from the comments, it seems like you’re wrong.

        • @I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world
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          1•8 months ago

          You suck, man

          • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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            1•8 months ago

            Lol

    • Frozyre
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      That’s not a bad thing. Maybe some of us don’t want to be cluttered with a lot of things we don’t really care for on using. God forbid we go back to simpler days of communication whereas now we’ve got things like Discord trying to charge people to pay actual money to have fancy little animations for your profile picture.

      Is that what you think is missing? Stupid pointless things that make you feel special because you paid money for it when the true attraction should be focused on how much communicating can be efficient and caring about your privacy and security?

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        Removed by mod

        • Frozyre
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          Removed by mod

          • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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            1•9 months ago

            Did you really just tell somebody to kill themselves over the preference if a messenger app lol

      • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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        1•9 months ago

        Is that what you think is missing?

        No.

        The rest of your incoherent essay is now useless.

        • Frozyre
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          Removed by mod

          • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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            1•9 months ago

            You seem like a very stable and rational person.

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    • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      5•9 months ago

      I liked msn messanger when it was around.

      • @Summzashi@lemmy.one
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        1•9 months ago

        It was indeed great.

        15 years ago.

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