this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2026
2 points (75.0% liked)

Privacy

48207 readers
618 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It's centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)

Thoughts?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

A lot of people use Signal. It may not be the best solution out there, but it is so, so, so much better than the proprietary alternates.

One good thing is that a normie can easily use it as an alternative to WhatsApp, since the app design is so similar. I mean, it is easy for family and friends to understand and start using Signal, compared to something like Matrix or XMPP.

And if someone needs a little more hardening, they could use the fork called Molly, which has a few more security benefits over the stock app.

[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Shit these are great features. I had never heard of it before.

Molly is an independent Signal fork for Android with improved features:

Fully FOSS Contains no proprietary blobs, unlike Signal

Encrypted Protects database with Passphrase Encryption

Multi-Device Pair multiple devices to a single account

Material You Extra theme that follows your device palette

UnifiedPush Ungoogled notification system

Automatic Locking When you are gone for a set period of time

RAM Shredding Securely shreds sensitive data

Tor Support Supports SOCKS proxy and Tor via Orbot

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ooh! And you can add an F-Droid repo!
https://molly.im/fdroid/