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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (13 children)

Wow, this is truly a hot take.

How much signal and she spend onnthis shameless self promotion.

Why would she/they do that? Did you realize they're a nonprofit?

if anything she is taking signal the wrong way and going the way of mozilla IMHO

Oh no, not that awful non-profit Mozilla...?

Signal is a good product but there is a lot areas where it can do better...

The same could be said for literally every product.

Have gotten any new features over last 5 years? Besides aliases?

Aliases is kind of a big deal. They also added stories which, despite what the internet might have you believe, was one of the most popular feature requests on the Signal message boards for many years. They created the first and only private and secure social media platform in existence.

Keep in mind everything they do is 10x harder because it has to meet stringent safety and security requirements.

Check out the handle @[email protected] to see a detailed breakdown of added features.

Seen interesting discussions about how signal is farming our meta data to the feds.

That's a bold claim that I assume has some sort of evidence?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

They also added stories which, despite what the internet might have you believe, was one of the most popular feature requests on the Signal message boards for many years

This was weird for me personally. I consider Signal a messaging tool which in my mind is separate from an actual social media app, so it was a bit of a head scratcher for me to see stories as a very popular feature request. I don't really care about sharing "stories" in that format to my contacts or seeing theirs, but then again that's just me.

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