A communications tool must have censorship resistance (decentralization), anonymous signup without requiring a phone, and have an official way to obtain binaries signed by the community instead of by corpos that can be forced to insert backdoors.
Signal fails on every single one of these criteria and that is why we must stop recommending it to our friends and family who have a very limited tolerance for technology changes.
Choose decentralization.
Use matrix, or make something better.
Fully vibe with the thrust. But omfg matrix is not a user experience that I can recommend to almost anyone accept hardcore open source nerds.
I literally can not keep up with what client even works month to month. Absolute disaster of incompatibility.
@nullagent I really don't understand comments like this.
All my non technical friends and family use Matrix.
I just tell them to install the official app, have them follow the new user wizard, find me, and send me a message.
Works every time for any skill level.
I think the biggest mistake is Element and Element X being distributed at the same time without feature parity warnings, but for basic messaging they work just fine. You just lose the ability to use threads w/ Element X.
Lance R. Vick
nullagent