Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong

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Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
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Nobody is going to use Signal when it lacks so many features. Feels like MSN messenger compared to it's peers.

what do you mean? i use it a lot and it works great, photos, videos, phone calls, optional temporary location sharing with friends, and encryption.

what features do you want it to have that it's lacking?

Don’t forget voice calls! It has some rough edges there (my audio doesn’t always connect successfully, etc), but when it works the codec sounds better than a standard phone call and there’s no mass surveillance. I use it in place of phone calls for all the people in my network who have it, including my immediate family.

that's a great point, i use the voice calls daily.

added above.

I'm guessing they probably want stickers or something

Edit: apparently this is available on signal so I have no fucking idea then

Yea we heavily use it in the army

very cool, i had no idea.

free, convenient, reliable encryption.

My guess is it heavily private and does not have channels

does not have channels

except that it does. you can make a public group with a shareable link, and change permissions so that only the admins can post.

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That's not a bad thing. Maybe some of us don't want to be cluttered with a lot of things we don't really care for on using. God forbid we go back to simpler days of communication whereas now we've got things like Discord trying to charge people to pay actual money to have fancy little animations for your profile picture.

Is that what you think is missing? Stupid pointless things that make you feel special because you paid money for it when the true attraction should be focused on how much communicating can be efficient and caring about your privacy and security?

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