Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your name and profile photo) private, your contacts private, and your groups private – among much else. Now we’re taking that one step further, by making your...
Finally, we can have usernames in Signal instead of giving our phone number to everybody.
Matrix/Element is slower than shit. I don’t understand why anyone recommends this.
Session is also slow but that’s not even a problem because I don’t know anyone who’s even heard of it, much less used it, and that’s mostly because it doesn’t have phone numbers.
At least some people I know are on Signal and I can easily discover them by phone #. Or at least I used to.
Been using matrix as my primary communication method (including bridges to other networks for things like Slack and WhatsApp) for over 3 years now, doesn’t feel slow?
You’re referring to anonymity, not privacy.
Matrix/Element is slower than shit. I don’t understand why anyone recommends this.
Session is also slow but that’s not even a problem because I don’t know anyone who’s even heard of it, much less used it, and that’s mostly because it doesn’t have phone numbers.
At least some people I know are on Signal and I can easily discover them by phone #. Or at least I used to.
Anonymity is part of privacy; not a dichotomy.
Been using matrix as my primary communication method (including bridges to other networks for things like Slack and WhatsApp) for over 3 years now, doesn’t feel slow?