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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.
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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?

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      Don’t forget, cross-platform!

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        i totally forgot, another great point

    • @trailee@sh.itjust.works
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      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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        And video! Group video too!

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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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        Yeah you can even make your own stickers for free

    • @vinyl@lemmy.world
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      Yea we heavily use it in the army

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        very cool, i had no idea.

        free, convenient, reliable encryption.

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      My guess is it heavily private and does not have channels

      • noodle (he/him)
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        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.

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