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Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal (signal.org)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Personally since I read this, I stopped recommending Signal. In this article among other things they say:

To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private: a system for detecting and disrupting spam campaigns.

I also saw a video where Moxie was a speaker defending centralization not only for Signal, in general, and I don't agree with this approach. (I think it was this one 36c3 Moxie Marlinspike: The ecosystem is moving)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I see where this is coming from and I personally prefer Matrix because of that but I must recognize that while I disagree with Moxie on some things he has a more pragmatic approach that has merits and probably has this position for good reasons that do not come from an evil/corporate plan. He wants people to use secure communication and he proposes compromises between security and ease of use (without which no one will switch, making general communication worse).

I still recommend Signal. To my geekier friends I recommend Matrix. But all in all, I consider Signal is still fighting the good fight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Moxie isn't involved in Signal decisions day to day, he resigned in 2022.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

TIL. Thanks!

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