mintdaniel42

No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.

I'm gonna be honest. I chose a random article by JWZ and read it. The only thing they are talking about is the contact discovery system. If they don't want contacts to be uploaded (encrypted) then simply don't give signal the permission. And that the author moves to facebook messenger because there

at least the privacy failings are obvious

just shows how the author isn't even interested in secure and private messaging but only in defamig signal

Yes you are right but the website links github commits as sources

I've been using Matrix for a few days now and I have to say that encryption is a mess. Rooms and Spaces are not encrypted. 1:1 chats are encrypted but before it worked for my account (whysoever) I had to verify the other person. Also fluffychat is really buggy

Yes it seems like Thunder for some reason does it that way

I'm sorry. You are right. Does it work now?

I think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine

Did you use a forked client? If yes which one?

They are exactly the same and I can open them both 🤷🏼

Okay so I've been using Signal for over two years now and would like to address your critical points:

• I switched from my old phone to my current phone without losing even one message. Not even safety numbers changed
• Yes you have to give them a phone number. And yes atm everyone is able to see them. This will change this year as usernames are coming. The phone number will from then on only be used for verification and stored encrypted
• I have three devices: Phone (Android), Tablet (Android) and PC (Linux). All of the messages get synchronized properly and almost instantly
• I don't know what you mean by this exactly but I think you mean that the official Signal server doesn't support forked clients which is false if you take a look at Molly (which I'm using on my Tablet due to several reasons)

In terms of reliability in general I never experienced any issues with Signal. It works great even in bad internet connection scenarios.

Yes I understand that but there's no messenger that's really perfect. Btw signal is working on free and paid cloud backups for iOS and Android

Matrix is more for communites