i've just seen a comment in a post, in this very community, saying people trust signal because of missinformation (from what i could undertand).
if this is true, then i have a few questions:
-what menssaging app should i use for secure communications? i need an app that balances simplicity and security.
-how to explain it to my friends who use signal because i recomended?
-what this means for other apps in general?
They don't allow third party clients.
They are open source, and you can run your own, but it won't ever be allowed to connect to the standard signal server.
Signal has a piece they say is for fighting spam so they can't release the code to it. So you just have to trust them.
https://signal.org/blog/keeping-spam-off-signal/
"We build Signal in the open, with publicly available source code for our applications and servers. To keep Signal a free global communication service without spam, we must depart from our totally-open posture and develop one piece of the server in private: a system for detecting and disrupting spam campaigns"
Signal is not perfect. It's better than most.
I personally use Matrix as I can go to another server or run my own. I run multiple clients. It is NOT perfect and has it's own issues.
Your mom uses Matrix? You could set up something with random people you just met? Because we're at that stage with Signal. It's private and convenient. If I want to have some soort of anonimity I'll use different platforms, indeed.
https://github.com/exquo/signal-soft/wiki/Software-list
That's a third party software list created by someone not Signal and basically tells you it's a work around to Signal:
"Signal does not have an official API, and the published code requires additional effort to be used outside of the official signal clients."
So I'm not certain the point of the link. There are still clients for Reddit and YouTube and others that are third party and aren't official. Signal doesn't support those.
The point is this statement is pointless because they exist anyway.