A few things #deltachat apps are doing positively different from #Signal apps

- easiest onboarding ever; not depending on phone numbers or other private data

- support for multiple chat profiles/identities

- decentralized servers, not depending on US-based GAFAM etc.

- migration from one app/platform to any other

- easy multi-device support for any chat profile

- developers have chances to get their PRs merged :)

- mini-apps support via https://webxdc.org

anything missing?

Great WhatsApp advice: Leave WhatsApp groups quietly 🤫

#WhatsApp can see everything about your group: profile photo, group description, who’s in your group, even who used to be in it (!), and much more…

Keep your #privacy top of mind. Switch to #Signal.

Download 👉 https://signal.org/install 💙

At what point of a new dating experience do you ask your romantic interest to switch your main chatting app from WhatsApp to Signal?

#whatsapp #signal #meta #privacy #dating

A few things #deltachat apps are doing positively different from #Signal apps

- easiest onboarding ever; not depending on phone numbers or other private data

- support for multiple chat profiles/identities

- decentralized servers, not depending on US-based GAFAM etc.

- migration from one app/platform to any other

- easy multi-device support for any chat profile

- developers have chances to get their PRs merged :)

- mini-apps support via https://webxdc.org

anything missing?

President of #Signal, Meredith Whittaker ( @Mer__edith ) calls the AI apocalypse a "A fantastical, adrenalizing ghost story is being used to hijack attention around what is the problem that regulation needs to solve"

I agree. And I think Hank Green would agree if he took a closer look at #AIdoomerism and the people and orgs he platformed in his last two videos on #AI.

I wrote about it here.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

#OpenSource

Great WhatsApp advice: Leave WhatsApp groups quietly 🤫

#WhatsApp can see everything about your group: profile photo, group description, who’s in your group, even who used to be in it (!), and much more…

Keep your #privacy top of mind. Switch to #Signal.

Download 👉 https://signal.org/install 💙

It looks like SimpleX has actually thought about the difficult problems with having multiple servers in a private messenger system.

I haven’t read in enough detail to be sure that they’ve succeeded in solving the problems, but they’re doing better than most of the other things I’ve looked at in this space. Signal could probably learn some lessons.

#SimpleX #Signal

At what point of a new dating experience do you ask your romantic interest to switch your main chatting app from WhatsApp to Signal?

#whatsapp #signal #meta #privacy #dating

For our Dutch followers and people with access to Dutch TV 🇳🇱

Tomorrow Signal's president @Mer__edith in #Buitenhof (pronounce as: "BOW-tun-hoff" but we'll count "TV" as correct)

It's about #signal #privacy & #bigtech

📺 Nov 30, 12:10 CET Channel: NPO1

https://www.vpro.nl/buitenhof/artikelen/buitenhof-30-november-2025

President of #Signal, Meredith Whittaker ( @Mer__edith ) calls the AI apocalypse a "A fantastical, adrenalizing ghost story is being used to hijack attention around what is the problem that regulation needs to solve"

I agree. And I think Hank Green would agree if he took a closer look at #AIdoomerism and the people and orgs he platformed in his last two videos on #AI.

I wrote about it here.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/hank-green-and-the-fantastical-tales-of-god-ais/

#OpenSource

Vorratsdaten: Kommission soll bis Mitte 2026 Vorschlag vorlegen

Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung kommt wieder, zumindest als Diskussionspunkt. Was die EU-Staaten sich wünschen, verrät ein vorweihnachtlicher Wunschzettel.

https://www.heise.de/news/Vorratsdaten-Kommission-soll-bis-Mitte-2026-Vorschlag-vorlegen-11101379.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Datenschutz #EU #IPAdressen #IT #Netzpolitik #Signal #Threema #Vorratsdatenspeicherung #WhatsApp #news

Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @signalapp web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.

DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who ends up downloading malware because of this.

CC @Mer__edith

#DuckDuckGo #Signal #adtech #teachingPeopleHowToGetPhished #malware #security #privacy #BigTech

@siderea
> I have two Signal accounts, and one of them ... has been getting a spam message on average every 15 minutes around the clock starting about a day ago, each time from another account

Just as well Signal demands phone numbers and doesn't interoperate with other encrypted chat services over a common protocol, because that makes it easy for Signal admins to make sure every sign up is a human and prevents spam, eh? Oh wait ... : P

#chat #decentralisation #SpamMitigation #Signal

Wow, if you search for signal messenger on DuckDuckGo using Chrome, the actual @signalapp web site is the *third* entry following ads for “Signal Private Messenger – Free Download” that leads to the site appmaus.com and “Get Signal Messenger | Install Signal App” that leads to the site filelocations.com.

DuckDuckGo should be held criminally liable for anyone who ends up downloading malware because of this.

CC @Mer__edith

#DuckDuckGo #Signal #adtech #teachingPeopleHowToGetPhished #malware #security #privacy #BigTech

@patrickleavy @yogthos Official statement from #signal on 3 October this year re: chat control: https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

I doubt anything has changed in two months.

@yogthos I don't care about WhatsApp (already monitored by #Meta, but how will #Signal handle this?