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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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[โ€“] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I agree. But I literally have software engineer bros who whine like little bitches about Matrix. I'm not stanning Signal, I try to Matrix where possible, but there are people in my life where Signal is the high watermark of what they will even try because they heard about it via Waltz accidentally putting Jeff Goldberg in the chat and there's no account setup.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Personally, I have yet to see anybody who was willing to use Signal whom I couldn't get to install the Element app instead. ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

๐Ÿคท this is not my lived experience with my normies, especially since it was in the news. Love your posts, btw, big fan of your content here on Lemmy.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago

Thanks, nice to know the posts are appreciated. :)