Leander Lindahl 🇪🇺Thursday is a good day to delta with friends and family.
Switch a loved one to #DeltaChat – the decentralised secure open source messenger from Europe.
Jasper@leanderlindahl I'm slowly getting people on Signal, I doubt this here will happen.
But the screenshots imply desktop usage as a bigger thing? Could it be an alternative to small discord communities?
brainwashed by lentils@b0rn_dead @leanderlindahl
as #signal user, i've often wanted to use a separate profile for work, for personal and for activism. whenever you're in that situation, #deltachat is helpful.
if you ever find yourself communicating in a context where it would be bad if you're phone numbers are leaked (despite being set to "hidden" because that setting is broken), then it's time to switch from #signal to #deltachat for that.
honestly signal's whole phone number thing is about as un-private as #facebook's real-name policy.
Maypop the Dragon@pelle @b0rn_dead @leanderlindahl
the phone number requirement is actually worse because, unlike names, phone numbers are globally unique and you can't effortlessly just make one up.
edit: see reply. this is slightly wrong.
ok actually i accidentally did misinfo here oops. if court orders or data leaks are part of your threat model, it's worse, but otherwise it's less bad because you can hide it from other users by using a username.
@maypop_neocities yes, you •think• you can hide your number, because that's what the settings say, yet #signal will still leak your number, so it's actually even worse, because they give false promises of security.
does their reply to my bug report look reassuring to you?
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/13824
there are other such leaks.
