Signal Essay about CIA ties and anti-FOSS

https://lemmy.world/post/217491

Signal Essay about CIA ties and anti-FOSS - Lemmy.world

We as a community must stop recommending Signal. For far too long we have blindly followed this app without a second thought. It has created a cult of followers, when there are much better apps out there for us to use. https://archive.is/Lhe24 [https://archive.is/Lhe24] archive for the essay This essay was posted to r/Privacy and subsequently removed and censored for literally No Reason. This is honestly really scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/ [https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/] https://archive.ph/FZr1d [https://archive.ph/FZr1d] I am seriously hoping we can have a discussion about this on lemmy. @TheAnonymouseJoker , I know you from r/PrivateLife, and thought you’d be the one to go to about this. Thanks for being open in the past and not bowing to the inner circle of reddit cringelords. I also am preparing an essay of my own about a complicit honeypot-ish web going on between Signal, Skiff, r/Privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, etc. They have a crazy little cabal that is very creepy. Any materials are welcome. Every time i turn over a stone i find two more. More to come.

Ok, so what is better with other apps and why shouldn't one recommend signal over the apps people use (say Whatsapp, telegram)

OP linked a whole essay about the second part of your question.

An alternative would be matrix, which can be used with the elements app on your phone.

Sorry, I only clicked the archive link but that's the broken one 😂