No all my friend are on insta 🤢

Sending big files over Signal or SimpleX? I doubt it.

Thanks may have to piggyback on it later

If you're on simplex you will understand this joke:

Simplex sucks because we need stickers

P.s. really love simplex, would like to see more stability and maybe speed, but everything else works just great

Has bugs re invites. Not for noobs.

They need to finally release the usernames feature. That will probably make it much more usable. At some point I managed to convince some of my friends to use signal, but ever since they removed sms support, even I don't use it.

They should have waited for usernames to remove the sms support.

+1

Signal has been legit and trustworthy for many years

I don't think matrix have piracy groups but yes in terms of privacy it's the best (ok maybe not the best and i should have put some reaserch into it my bad guys . i don't use it though)

The only piracy rooms on matrix that I know of are jc141 support and jc141 gnu/linux hackers

Thanks looks very promising

Once usernames roll out.

It is explained in the body

Isn't that for privacy i want piracy

Maybe not. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html

CIA Funding CIA → RFA → OTF → Signal. While this article by Yasha Levine gets into the details, it is no secret that the original funder of Open Whisper Systems (the previous name for signal’s development team), was the Open Technology Fund: itself publicly listed as a subsidiary of Radio Free Asia, a US state-run organization whose main goal (along with the other “Radio Free” incarnations such as Radio Free Europe, or Free Cuba Radio) is regime change for those Asian governments who don’t align with the US’s foreign policy interests.

Either way you can't recommend Signal over Telegram when it comes to features and service quality as it works very fast and handles large group chats (hundreds of people) no problem and syncs instantaneously. Signal's desktop and mobile clients are simply a pile of react and javascript garbage that can never be as fast as the native Telegram clients and usually fails at syncing messages. With Signal issues such as https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1350631024351346689 and "signal can't display this message" are very common.

Telegram has one very good thing going on for them: they aren’t dicks when you want to delete messages. You have options that are very clear on what they do and allow you to delete messages in both sides. Other platforms, including Signal, are just shit when it comes to this and frankly that’s a security nightmare. I can't ever trust a platform that when I ask it to delete a message it may or may not work, may or may not tell the other side it was deleted.

I’m not pushing people to use Signal anymore as their Apps still suck, there’s zero investment to make them more usable and to fix the things that are half broken. To make it even better their open-source is very questionably, their server code went for an year without updates. Why would I use something that lags, underperforms, has questionable open-source practices and might be funded by the CIA / influenced in some way then?