To be fair, signal is an open source protocol that anyone is free to implement.
“The Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol) is a non-federated cryptographic protocol that provides end-to-end encryption for voice and instant messaging conversations[…]”
Signal is an encryption protocol, not messaging protocol. My comment was about a messaging one like XMPP or Matrix.
It is a great app, but you cannot fit everyone into a single app.
Examples why I personally sometimes don’t want to use Signal:
Signal is super giga great, the cons list is short, but if we want everyone to use something it has to be an universal protocol, not one app.
Matrix and XMPP are in progress to support MLS, which is now accepted as an Internet standard for E2EE.
So encrypted messaging between chat protocols would be possible… Someday.
But hope this would be the last time we would need to do it.
Both XMPP and Matrix can be used for real-time messaging, but they are very different unerneath.
Good may mean different things for different people. Lemmy user base are mostly those who outside of pure practical usage look at how service treats users.
Mumble is great real time voice chat. For just chat why not use standard Internet-based messaging?
I remember when Apple was obligated to replace a text on app download button from “free” to “get”, because many apps are free of price to download but make money by in-app purchaces.
Maybe we could do something like that for streaming services.
I still don’t like centralized corpo silo nature of Reddit, but must say the new logo looks far better and alive.
Imagine a world when instead of
adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named AllowCortana with value 0 to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search in registry editor,
we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.
Not using products made to milk you to the rescue.
Crazy to say this, but what got me into free and open source software was Telegram ecosystem. And what got me into Telegram was stickers, animations and other eye candy.
Matrix aims to be a protocol for mostly real-time things like chat and voice/video calls.
It has a data structure called rooms (think: chat rooms) that are spread out across multiple servers and the servers synchronize the content between each other. While ActivityPub (what most of Fediverse uses) is much simpler and just list posts adding API for interactions. Matrix aim to be a fabric to build decentralized alternatives of Discord, Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, Jamboard, Google Docs, etc.
Apple is scary not because what they do, they’re doing great, but what they can do once PR departament allows.
They massively block some kind of apps (like they blocked VPNs in China) and what would houndreds of millions of people do? Throw away their expensive phones? And go buy, what, the one from Google?
Don’t trust anything that came preinstalled with the device and does not have an option to uninstall.
Why would I use a PWA on the desktop?
How Freenet declares itself as a replacement of WWW and Internet, while what is does is delivering WWW sites on the Internet…
Across all two of them.
I would really like to see how broken the web would be if someone in theory create a new complete implementation of the basic standards.
Any website that does not work in Lynx is just bad design.
Where? Like, no. Maybe they somewhat support software they have in the chain of usage like any other company and that’s it. Yes for taking the challenge, but like Spotify, complaining about roadblock of another company, does not make them good.
But not to say this should be the place to trash on Epic.