AprilF00lzDownsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?
The difficulty of any non-mainstream chat app is getting other people to use it. On that list, Signal is the most probable to be recognized by people who don’t have a particular interest in privacy, so it’s more likely to get more people to use it.
besides that, and besides the lack of forward secrecy on matrix and session already mentioned by privacy guides, do some of these alternatives have worse security, privacy, or ux than signal in some way?
both have worse UX than Signal. pretty much all except Signal are lacking on this front. OSS developers are allergic to a smooth UX in general
Signals UX is no better than SMS apps. People I’ve tried to convert all say the same thing.
But it’s still the most secure/privacy minded messenger.
Possibly linuxYou are going to use what, Briar? Signals popularity makes it be under constant analysis
Delusion6903Signal has read receipts, reactions and typing indicators. That’s 90% of what any messenger needs. It also let’s you schedule texts. I do wish it would do reminders and pinch to resize text though.