Why not Signal?
dessalines.github.io
A few essays on communism

We as a community must stop recommending Signal. For far too long we have blindly followed this app without a second thought. It has created a cult of followers, when there are much better apps out there for us to use.

https://archive.is/Lhe24 archive for the essay

This essay was posted to r/Privacy and subsequently removed and censored for literally No Reason. This is honestly really scary: https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/wj5svi/signal_messenger_revealed_to_have_cia_ties_funded/ https://archive.ph/FZr1d

I am seriously hoping we can have a discussion about this on lemmy. @TheAnonymouseJoker , I know you from r/PrivateLife, and thought you’d be the one to go to about this. Thanks for being open in the past and not bowing to the inner circle of reddit cringelords.

I also am preparing an essay of my own about a complicit honeypot-ish web going on between Signal, Skiff, r/Privacy, r/PrivacyGuides, etc. They have a crazy little cabal that is very creepy. Any materials are welcome. Every time i turn over a stone i find two more. More to come.

  • gonzo0815@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    OP linked a whole essay about the second part of your question.

    An alternative would be matrix, which can be used with the elements app on your phone.

    • PM_ME_UR_PCAPS@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Matrix, where it’s ambiguous if you’re sending encrypted or unencrypted messages, disappearing and view once messages aren’t really a thing, and the server logs all metatata. Much better than signal.

      • Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        2 years ago

        To be fair, all of that stuff can be controlled by the server host. Too bad you have to be the server host to be sure.

    • jmp242English
      1·
      2 years ago

      Doesn’t matrix massively inncrease the number of entities you have to trust with the data and so more places it could be attacked? I. E. Kind of like RAID0 your places for something to go wrong in the message routing and storage.

      Matrix seems way more like a Discord alternative where you are doing public group chats vs like xmpp or signal point to point sms sort of chat.