I am not comfortable that signal depends proprietary google library. However, I find that Molly lags significantly behind signal (around 1 to 2 weeks, so maybe not as significant as I thought), but I am just concerned that if there is a security fix in signal, molly will not be able to react as fast.

I am also quite frustrated with the general lack of communication from the signal team (for example the lack of communication regarding username). I doubt they will have the good will to help molly when there is a critical security fix.

It is frustrating that signal no longer seems like the gold standard for privacy any more; unfortunately, all my friends are on there (ironic, isn’t it…).

  • muhyb@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    I guess that’s a common misconception with the federated services. Yes you can own your data if you join the federation with your own server, but once you write something on a community, it’s federated and on other servers from that moment. This is the best way to keep forums intact as long as possible, so years later someone can check those and find whatever they searched for. Reddit was great as a forum however after the recent incidents people deleted their posts and unless someone recorded that page on web archive before you won’t find anything when someone redirects you there. What people should know here, federated services are meant to be anonymous, not private.

    Again, no need to expose anything here, and well, I’m not much of a talker anyway. :)

    It’s fine to talk here, as long as it isn’t something personal.