<story><title>I don&apos;t trust Signal</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>g_sch</author><text>Some version of this post seems to circulate every few months or so. This one is more direct in its accusations of Moxie acting in bad faith. I think this is disingenuous. Moxie has been very clear[0] about the tradeoffs that Signal has made and the reasons for them. It&amp;#x27;s fine to be dissatisfied with those choices. It&amp;#x27;s another thing entirely to accuse Moxie of dissimulating.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I&amp;#x27;d like to see Signal replace WhatsApp. That&amp;#x27;s why I support the path Signal took, and why I also have a distaste for the author&amp;#x27;s snarky dismissals of features like GIF search.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-ecosystem-is-moving&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-ecosystem-is-moving&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hutzlibu</author><text>But in the linked post he does not explain, why he does not maintain a F-Droid repository for people who do not trust google, nor why the original Signal Client does not connect to Signal Forks, even if they use everything the same.
Security reasons? Ordinary smartphones are full of rootkits anyways, so someone using a forked Signal version probably is better of anyway, as he knows a bit more what he is doing.&lt;p&gt;So the base argument holds in my opinion: Moxies main focus is Moxie in control. And not making Signal the best and securely possible.&lt;p&gt;So I also use Signal, but as soon as Matrix gets stable, I am gone</text></comment>
<story><title>I don&apos;t trust Signal</title><url>https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>g_sch</author><text>Some version of this post seems to circulate every few months or so. This one is more direct in its accusations of Moxie acting in bad faith. I think this is disingenuous. Moxie has been very clear[0] about the tradeoffs that Signal has made and the reasons for them. It&amp;#x27;s fine to be dissatisfied with those choices. It&amp;#x27;s another thing entirely to accuse Moxie of dissimulating.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I&amp;#x27;d like to see Signal replace WhatsApp. That&amp;#x27;s why I support the path Signal took, and why I also have a distaste for the author&amp;#x27;s snarky dismissals of features like GIF search.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-ecosystem-is-moving&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;signal.org&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;the-ecosystem-is-moving&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>m-p-3</author><text>I am not willing to support Signal if they are unwilling to federate the system.&lt;p&gt;Sure, it doesn&amp;#x27;t allow them the flexibility they&amp;#x27;d like to have to move forward but in a way it won&amp;#x27;t be their fault if federated servers aren&amp;#x27;t keeping themselves up to date when there&amp;#x27;s a major protocol change and they get temporarily splitted from the pool.</text></comment>