I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It’s all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

  • BlanK0@lemmy.ml
    18·
    5 months ago

    Signal really is that better replacement for WhatsApp since the functionality is identical, others would have to force people to get used to the different ui and the options.

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
      86·
      5 months ago

      Except Signal UI is… Not good. It feels like using a texting app.

      Between the UI and dropping SMS support, I can’t get anyone to use it anymore, and people I had using it have moved on.

      Dropping SMS is really frustrating - it was the big selling point I had.

      • ry_@lemmy.ml
        31·
        5 months ago

        I’m one of those people who thinks SMS has no place in a private messaging app. Signal is the gold standard, and enabling sms merely legitimised this incredibly non private and antiquated messaging protocol.

        • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
          52·
          5 months ago

          And gave a constant reminder to people that something better was right there.

          And put things in one place.

          You’re letting perfect be the enemy of good. At least with SMS support I could get people to switch to “this new texting app”, and we’d then have a proper Signal encrypted chat. And when they texted someone else, Signal would append the “you could have encryption too” signature, generating a conversation about it.

          The people who moved off of Signal went back to SMS entirely. How is that better?