> the compromises are significant.
> I use Secure Scuttlebutt, Cabal, Spritely Goblins, Tor,
Honestly, I don't care how secure or how private (phone numbers are a privacy issue, not a security issue) if I have no one to communicate with. You need to solve the mass adoption problem.
It's always the same complaints and they are trivial. Phone numbers, onboarding is hard because capatcha (wtf?!), signal is pwned because they got money from a government grant, moxie did some weekend hacking to integrate a cryptocurrency and so it's all shit.
I've never understood these. Even the non conspiracy stuff is just... nothing. Like do what? That's a roadblock for you? Then you shouldn't be on HN or be using a phone in the first place. Best to get off the internet all together.
I just don't understand why there's so much passionate hate. It feels like bots and trolls running a disinformation campaign but I actually think it's real people
You know Signal is doing something right when even the constant doubters use it. Exactly because it's very accessible.
There are always compromises some of them are hard to make. Signal successfully makes private / secures the “normal” conversations that would otherwise be on some Facebook owned app. None of the alternatives manage to do that.
Once you get Signal messages from randos without fist contact. Like airbnb hosts with password codes or IT admins or lawyers… it makes clear that they are doin it right.
Honestly it's just shame the platforms won't allow them to be the “native” sms app like iMessage. That would be the most ideal and probably upset much of the police deparments.