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.
    • edricEnglish
      151·
      2 months ago

      They also added stories which, despite what the internet might have you believe, was one of the most popular feature requests on the Signal message boards for many years

      This was weird for me personally. I consider Signal a messaging tool which in my mind is separate from an actual social media app, so it was a bit of a head scratcher for me to see stories as a very popular feature request. I don’t really care about sharing “stories” in that format to my contacts or seeing theirs, but then again that’s just me.

        • edricEnglish
          161·
          2 months ago

          Lol calm down, no one’s trying to fight you over Signal being the best private messaging platform. I was just sharing that it was weird to me how stories was one of the most sought out features from users.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      214·
      2 months ago

      Does signal meta data allow for signal to time stamp witu who you communicate using their app and servers?

      Side note, PR like that costs about 15k fyi

        • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
          116·
          2 months ago

          1. @yogthos@lemmy.ml what you got to say for this one?

          2. Verge doesn’t run flulf for free. This is PR 101. But I trust you bro

          • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlEnglish
            02·
            2 months ago

            The phone number is the key metadata. Meanwhile, nobody outside the people who are actually operating the server knows what it’s doing and what data it retains. Faith based approach to privacy is fundamentally wrong. Any data that the protocol leaks has to be assumed to be available to adversaries.

            Furthermore, companies can’t disclose if they are sharing data under warrant. This is why the whole concept of warrant canary exists. Last I checked Signal does not have one.

            https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

            • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
              12·
              2 months ago

              So we are still back to “I trust signal bro”

              I agree that their court disclosures are not a strong argument. I was hoping for something more technical besides faith based approach.

              If they were asked by the feds to log, they are able to do so it seems this far

              @helenslunch@feddit.nl

              Am I missing something in this position?