Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
sms is not even an option for us; international texting costs a lot. Some people don’t even use a phone, they rely on internet connected devices only. Trying to coordinate all of this gets complicated fast.
weirdly my first thought just now was “wouldn’t it be cool if we could federate this somehow”. have a single (or a handful) of secure communication protocol(s) so that users could just choose the app with the UI they liked best and be done with it.
…then I realized I just essentially invented matrix and that already exists. lol. but yeah the issue is getting everyone to the same place.
its impossible to get some people to move from a platform they’ve used for over a decade in most cases.
sms is not even an option for us; international texting costs a lot. Some people don’t even use a phone, they rely on internet connected devices only. Trying to coordinate all of this gets complicated fast.
weirdly my first thought just now was “wouldn’t it be cool if we could federate this somehow”. have a single (or a handful) of secure communication protocol(s) so that users could just choose the app with the UI they liked best and be done with it.
…then I realized I just essentially invented matrix and that already exists. lol. but yeah the issue is getting everyone to the same place.
its impossible to get some people to move from a platform they’ve used for over a decade in most cases.