Blah blah blah. Signal is the best consumer-grade encryption messenger out there. If you think you're going to get kidnapped and have your device stolen and be compelled to open it and don't have another PIN on your Signal, etc., ad nauseum, rinsus washus repitus, then you're just crying in the rain.

Get another cause. There are so many with much more important significance than this silly-assed, tired argument.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The vast majority of people can't even be bothered to delete WhatsApp for security concerns.

Whining about how signal isn't running off a Linux virtual machine that emulates a 1972 Turkish missile console looks like clown shit to damn near everyone and probably close to 80% of the people that have even cared enough to download signal in the first place.

Valid concerns and critiques are valid but, like, its open source dog. Just make it better. Make a federated version or whatever he wants, the source code is right there in the app.

This guy sounds like one of those dudes that thinks something is only good if nobody knows how to use it and success is measured in how widely it's rejected by consumers

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago

This guy sounds like one of those dudes that thinks something is only good if nobody knows how to use it and success is measured in how widely it’s rejected by consumers

An elitist through and through

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I got my girlfriend on signal, but she's a Mexican citizen. That entire country runs on WhatsApp. It would be like pulling teeth to make her understand why WhatsApp is bad.

I told her I can't use it, so we compromised.

[–] Auntievenim@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thats what I'm saying! Maybe once there are entire countries running on signal you can be the snooty "my contacts in my phone can see me on signal" critic that nobody cares about or listens to

Right now meta has access to every message sent in Mexico and this guy is trying to convince people not to use signal because it "isn't secure" smh