• perestroika@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    As a happy user of Signal (no bugs or incidents from my viewpoint), I regardless chime in to say a word for decentralization. :)

    Signal is centralized:

    • there is a single Signal implementation, with a single developing entity
    • you have to install its mobile version before you may run the desktop version

    There exist protocols like Tox which go a step beyond Signal and offer more freedom -> have multiple clients from diverse makers (some of them unstable), don’t have centralized registration, and don’t rely on servers to distribute messages - only to distribute contact information.

    In the grand comparison table of protocols (not clients), Tox is among the few lines that’s all green (Signal has one red square).