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Signal downloads spike in the US and Yemen amid government scandal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] diffusive@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (17 children)

The chat space is problematic.

  • There are a lot of apps that don’t encrypt at all (e.g. Google chat, discord, etc)
  • There are apps that encrypt but they are subject to jurisdictions that can or may in the future force backdoors (e.g., Chinese apps, possibly telegram, possibly US apps in the future)
  • There are apps that encrypt, are in countries that are privacy focused but are not for free (e.g., threema)

This contributes to a fragmentation that makes WhatsApp the app that-you-must-have

Sure it is supposedly encrypted but I would not bet my money that is without back doors

[–] renzev@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whatsapp to messengers is what internet explorer was to browsers lol. Slow, bloated, unfree, universally hated, but still somehow universally used

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Ain’t that the truth

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I mean honestly, feature wise, it's pretty good in my opinion. It has some very useful features Signal lacks (e.g. live location sharing) and it's not slow or badly designed in my opinion.

I still prefer Signal since I don't like Facebook, but realistically speaking WhatsApp is pretty good.

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