How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism
The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?
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If you don't want to use Signal, use a forked version of it - Session (doesn't require a phone number, only has a code number as id) or SimpleX Chat (not even a code number, completely private)
How does simplex users then connect with each other?
One-time QR code that you "either exchange in person or via video call". I'm not sure how the latter works. The video shows it's exchanges in-app but how do I even get in contact? It can only be exchanged via some other channel like email which defeats the whole purpose...
I guess you should know who you want to talk to, then have some other medium of contacting them, and then when you decide to move your conversations into a secure medium you meet or video call and pass the simplex key? That sounds about right. I suppose with the levels of privacy it espouses, there really can't be a form of "online communities" because people wouldn't want to reveal anything about them without already knowing the person they are revealing details to, and vice versa.