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Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups. (github.com)
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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

~~Heavy sigh~~

~~Once again, I will be looking for alternatives to Signal.~~

Edit: If it's just paying for cloud backups, then I don't care at all

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Have you looked at simplex yet?

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, and one of my friends stood up a matrix server too. Getting everyone on just one like Signal though... it's the "now there are fifteen standards" problem. I know there are bridges available for Matrix that can make it a central place for all your messaging traffic, but at least one person has to go through the effort of setting all of that up, and then maintaining it if it breaks.

I dunno, maybe I'll be that guy. Just toss it on the pile of things I have to teach myself... Seems like it only ever keeps getting bigger no matter how much I learn, though...

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Simplex doesn't require you to setup a server. You just need to make a local profile on your device. And it walks you through that.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Sorry, I was talking about Matrix at that point. Of the issues I raised, Simplex just suffers the standards problem.

Edit: Clarity

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

SimpleX also suffers several more problems, like

  1. Verifying you're talking to the same person in two different chats
  2. Synchronizing rooms with more than a tiny handful of users

It's still very experimental at this point

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 3 days ago

Desktop apps are not there yet either.

Hopefully can start moving there next year