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Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • What's your point?

    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • Yeah the comment I responded to did

    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • It doesn't matter whether a server claims to run free software or not. You can't verify what it's running. That's why E2EE is designed entirely around the client. You can't trust the server no matter what.

    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • You can't just write three paragraphs (that contain half-truth, half-misinformation) about how Signal is the middleman and then conclude "you can assume there's no middleman". You can't assume that. Signal is the middleman. There's no arguments to be made against this. Signal doesn't claim they aren't the middleman either.

    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • If you want to be mainstream a) you can't have spammers, scammers, and all the other scum of the earth and b) finding your contacts in the app HAVE TO be plug and play. Literally no normie will bother adding with usernames or whatever.

    • Why does Signal want a phone number to register if it's supposedly privacy first?

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  • no middleman

    Signal is not P2P

    • Is Ollama the most private/secure way to run AI models locally?

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  • Use docker if you want peace of mind

    • WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages

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  • an open source and proprietary platform

    Are parts of matrix closed source?

    • WhatsApp provides no cryptographic management for group messages

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  • Just use signal is not a valid statement in a world where vast majority of people aren't using (and won't use) it. I have been trying to get people to install it and have a total of 6 over several years. They only use it to communicate with me.

    • Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government

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  • What was the content tho?

    • Brave is not a bad browser and nor is Firefox.

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  • People miss the fact that we can tell when one of them make a questionable decision which is what matters the most.