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Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by AprilF00lz@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'm thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

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[–] Tempo@lemmy.ml 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What's your use case? Likeminded techie friends? Family members?

Signal works well as an alternative to the likes of Telegram and WhatsApp, even if it still requires a phone number and is centralised. Far easier to explain to the family instead of "oh well you can sign up on this website or this website or that website".

Granted, if you want to host a small Matrix server just for the family, then go for it.