As Signal get your phone number. Can we considerate this application as private ? What’s your thoughts about it ? I’m also using SimpleX, ElementX, Threema, but not much people using it…

Cheers

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
    192·
    2 days ago

    you have to register with your phone number.

    But you dont have to give your phone number out to friends or peopole you meet.

    Some family members use Molly-Foss and have no issues.

    I use signal-foss from the Twin helix repo, A fork of Signal with proprietary Google binary blobs removed…

    https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

    Signal from the F-droid - The guardian project repo, is just signal.

    I read that the issue was with signal using google firebase, and that it was easier for the fascist piglets to track your messages through notifications.

    I have found that you can actually delete a contact via molly but cannot do it via signal.

    With signal you can only block a contact, which for me, is a privacy issues.

    If I meet a random person, say on holiday, and we swap details, I want to delete them, not block them, where they remain in my block list forever.

    I swap between Signal-FOSS and Molly if I want to delete a contact.

    • furry toaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      people will still expect you to share phone numbers to talk in signal in my personal experience, I really don’t understand how they get so attached to such an archaic technology and often will refuse to use the alias system completely because remembering a random string of numbers is “simpler” somehow

      • infjarchninja@lemmy.ml
        3·
        23 hours ago

        hey furry toaster

        Its very frustrating.

        People are very odd when it comes to privacy and tech in general.

        I have convinced half my friends to move from text messaging to signal and encrypted email but the other half totally refuse. Some have even changed to SimpleX chat and others to conversations.

        I have explained to them how, just having my phone number in their contacts list, is hoovered up by all the other apps on their phones.

        I tell them I use opencontacts because I respect their privacy, and that I do not share their phone numbers with any apps, so they should respect my privacy too. which they dont.

        https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/

        I put my foot down and say that I refuse to contact them or reply to any message they send, unless it is encrypted.

        I also tell them to delete my number from their phones because I will not reply to them if they use my phone number.

        they still cling on to gmail and the old text messages and dont bother messaging me at all.

        very odd people.