The Signal messenger and protocol.

the safest form of messaging I have is Signal, but the whole point of the safety number is to verify that the person you're talking to on Signal is really that person, so I can't send my safety number through Signal. any other option I have, the data is going to be harvested by somebody.

how do you all do it if you don't have physical contact with your Signal people?

specifically, the emoji ones, not the text ones underneath

Some time ago, I read an article that all messenger apps, by EU directive, would have to build bridge protocols in order to have flow of communication between different networks.

Surfing the web, I read an article from 2016 where the Signal protocol was being integrated into Whatsapp. More recently, I read that Signal and Telegram could communicate.

What is the true status on this? The more I search, the more contradicting information I seem to find.

It's available in Molly

I have had the setting called "use address book photos" disabled for weeks, but signal still seems to load pictures from my address book for signal users without PFP, any way to stop this behaviour?

Yeah, I cannot make Signal display voice call to full screen on Samsung Galaxy S20. It is only displayed as a notification bar. Also on the lock screen it is not displayed at all, it just rings, and there is no even notification bar. When you unlock (actually it has no lock, just swipe) a phone still nothing, you have to open the top notification panel to accept or deny a call. I really need it for elder, that is not able to see a notification bar. I need it to be displayed in full screen, just like a normal call.

Could anyone help on this problem? I'd be grateful.

I've recently started using signal and getting some of my contacts switched. I have a signal contact that's in my iPhone contact list, but isn't linked and I can't find any way to get that link created. He's tried toggling the privacy->phone number options on and off, the "who can see" and "who can find me", with no luck.

One possible clue - my first signal connection to this contact was in a group chat, I texted the link and he joined signal that way. No idea if relevant.

Any thoughts?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25355693

Greetings!

A friend of mine wants to be more secure and private in light of recent events in the USA.

They originally told me they were going to use telegram, in which I explained how Telegram is considered compromised, and Signal is far more secure to use.

But they want more detailed explanations then what I provided verbally. Please help me explain things better to them! ✨

I am going to forward this thread to them, so they can see all your responses! And if you can, please cite!

Thank you! ✨

I bribed them with cookies!

I'm aware of how to set up chat backups on Android, but this only makes local backups that you have to manually upload or copy.

I'm trying to find a solution where I can set and forget backups to the cloud.

My requirements are:

1. It doesn't require me exposing the rest of my file system/cloud storage to a third party app without scoping (filesync works, but doesn't meet this criteria).
2. It can upload directly to a cloud service

So far, no dice :/

Is there some workaround?

P.S. my potential solution is move Signal to my Shelter Work profile, where I do have filesync installed, but then I won't have contacts access, which is a slight pain (and because I don't want to create contacts in my work profile).

solved: Settings >> Chats >> Chat backups >> Create backup

all the instructions I can find for creating a backup are instructions for transferring my account to another phone, which is not what I'm trying to do. I just want a nice little zip file or something that I can save on some third party storage device.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/19929673

Chatcontrol is once again stopped. Good work again everyone who stood up, this is once again a win everytime it is a win.

Next country that is up for Presidency is Poland 🇵🇱 who are anti-chatcontrol.

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Anybody have any experience with mobilecoin? What is the use case for it? Seems kind of pointless and a lot more tedious than just a bank transfer. Why does signal include crypto nonsense in their app (I like crypto, but just can't see any reason why it should be integrated in the app). I'm sad that signal does not have support for 3rd party open source clients that could remove such features. Why not add support for monero instead?

Even if I try to contact them for a bug report, the app just open up the email app and I know there’s some email advantage for organizations because of the automation etc. but I expected to contact them directly within signal app. Much more privately.

Several countries have recently blocked Signal, leaving their residents without a trusted and safe place to communicate.

Just a little post to make you aware that a recent update that allowed synchronized deletion of messages between devices (ex: deleting a message for yourself only on your computer will delete it on your phone as well) also applies to the feature to completely delete a conversation.

This previously didn’t happen and is a bit annoying as I just accidentally deleted a few conversations from both my phone and computer because I was used to deleting conversations on my computer (as they’re pretty much stored unencrypted and I don’t like it)

So sadly I thought this change wouldn’t affect this feature but it did, so that’s annoying, I just lost a ton of messages and media

Im using Signal v7.15 on an OGSE with ios 15.8.2 Was trying to change my phone number but I keep having problems in receiving the OTP. Error message says there is an external failure but does not explain why. Possible solution to this? TIA