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.
Wow, this is truly a hot take.
Why would she/they do that? Did you realize they’re a nonprofit?
Oh no, not that awful non-profit Mozilla…?
The same could be said for literally every product.
Aliases is kind of a big deal. 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. They created the first and only private and secure social media platform in existence.
Keep in mind everything they do is 10x harder because it has to meet stringent safety and security requirements.
Check out the handle @SignalUpdateInfo@mastodon.world to see a detailed breakdown of added features.
That’s a bold claim that I assume has some sort of evidence?
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.
And I don’t care about what you think about it. If you don’t like it, disable it, and it’ll be like it was never there. Simple as that.
Like I said before, they created the first and only private and secure social platform. Nothing else like it exists or has existed. Personally I find that super valuable.
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.
In the future please be sure to get your opinions approved by the comment thread captain before sharing them publicly.
And I just don’t understand why so many people feel compelled to share their feelings about it any time it is mentioned.
It is the internet and we are on a discussion board lol
You made a post in an open, public forum and you’re confused why others would like to discuss the things that you posted?
I don’t understand why people feel the need to derail the discussion every time it is mentioned.
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
No. They use your phone number as your identifier (unfortunately, probably for spam evasion) and the only piece of metadata they keep is the last time that # connected to the server.
We know this because Signal has disclosed subpoenas publicly.
No its not.
…and? My question remains.
@yogthos@lemmy.ml what you got to say for this one?
Verge doesn’t run flulf for free. This is PR 101. But I trust you bro
The Verge makes money the same way almost every modern media publication does; advertising to their readers.
Re-read what you wrote… JFC
This can’t be serious