I think that he is right about decentralization of the servers(if it’d be possible to keep the phone numbers) and the desktop app issue
But I think the phone number requirement is a good thing because people can just find each other without having having to exchange usernames and stuff.
Signals aim is privacy, not anonymity. If you want anonymity, there are better options like Simple X.
He makes valid points, I don’t think anyone ever claimed signal to be the best way to message privately. What it DOES do is make private messaging easily accessible for normies.
Not that I disagree with the video though, requiring a phone number etc are not beneficial to privacy and caters to normies, maybe too much.
At least soon they’ll release the feature to sign up without a number. Just took a while to get there.
beneficial to privacy and caters to normies, maybe too much.
Well you mean anonymity, right?
Don’t they require you to make a payment from a credit card for the numberless feature?
They require you to have google play services installed and to pay through google play. There is no reason for this other than to collect data.
Isnt it SimpleX, pronounced like sim-plex?
Doesn’t simplex already have a different meaning in communication systems?
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