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Signal in 2026? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago by guymontag@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It's centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)

Thoughts?

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[–] kahoodd@reddthat.com 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

use xmpp like me

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

And also have 0 friends 😅

Seriously, not a single real life person is going to use something like xmpp.

[–] kahoodd@reddthat.com 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I had 3 back then but because my dump android stops it from running in the background. Now I left with 1 legit friend, I also force my parents to use it :)

Seriously, not a single real life person is going to use something like xmpp.

True but I also don't want to be close with npc iphone/instaram users anyway

[–] erb013kt@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I use XMPP. Don't be hatin'.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

No hatin, just saying normies ain't gonna use that.

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 9 hours ago

I was using XMPP two decades ago when it was first introduced (before smartphones) and it was then a great step forward compared to the other IM clients of the time: AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, etc.

It was great that it was going to be interoperable by design, particularly exciting when Google jumped on the XMPP bandwagon with native support in whichever of their dozens of chat apps was current at the time. But like nearly everything that Google runs through Beta, it was eventually scrapped, and they returned to their walled garden.

XMPP has been flailing for a long time and it’s not in a position to grow. Signal is far and away the best balance available today among security, privacy, usability, and network effects meaning other people to communicate with.