Hi all! I’m working on my cyber security bachelor’s thesis and am reaching out to gather insights from users who use decentralized messaging applications.

I would be incredibly thankful if you could find the 2 to 4 minutes to fill out the form. Your experience in the matter is incredibly valuable.

You’ll find the survey at https://questionnaire.ink/412758

Your responses are confidential and will be used solely for supporting my thesis. No personally identifiable information is collected.

Thanks!

      • Dupree878@lemmy.world
        33·
        7 months ago

        Which is why I commented OP should have included the definition for decentralised messaging application. I had to look at the drop-down list to figure out what it was talking about because I was thinking it meant signal, telegram, or WhatsApp

        • Kolli
          8·
          7 months ago

          It’s okay to not know what decentralisation mean, but it’s weird you haven’t picked it up yet. Even more so, why did you attend to survey if you don’t know what it even asks about?

    • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      7 months ago

      Maybe because Signal is a piece of crap. Just a bunch of poorly written desktop and mobile clients tied to questionable backends.

      And also because… https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

      CIA Funding CIA → RFA → OTF → Signal. While this article by Yasha Levine gets into the details, it is no secret that the original funder of Open Whisper Systems (the previous name for signal’s development team), was the Open Technology Fund: itself publicly listed as a subsidiary of Radio Free Asia, a US state-run organization whose main goal (along with the other “Radio Free” incarnations such as Radio Free Europe, or Free Cuba Radio) is regime change for those Asian governments who don’t align with the US’s foreign policy interests.

      You can’t recommend Signal over anything when it comes to features and service quality it just can’t handle large group chats (hundreds of people) and the cross device sync fails often with a “signal can’t display this message”. Signal’s desktop and mobile clients are simply a pile of react and JavaScript garbage that can never be as fast as the native applications from other apps.

      • delirious_owl@discuss.online
        2·
        7 months ago

        No, because this is a survey about decentralized tech, and signal has been very vocal about opposing decentralized design