I can appreciate the functionality, but cannot really call an application “good” if it eats up more than half a gigabyte of RAM while being something as simple as a messenger.

My biggest issue with Signal is it being so mobile-oriented. Mobile use seems to be encouraged, and even to register you are directly told to go to the mobile app (and if you register in a VM, you’re then stuck using it because it wants you to scan a QR code which is so easy to do in a VM!) No thanks, I don’t trust my mobile - they’re much harder to make private and “yours” than a desktop. Was it that hard to just add a field for entering the verification code in the desktop client? Sure, I did end up using signal-cli, but it is not mentioned anywhere officially. Point is about how the Signal itself tries to push you onto mobile.

Maybe an independent mechanic can do so then?

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remember kids, not your keys, not your coins

And only on mobile.

Still, a decentralized protocol, not a platform, would have a much easier time circumventing stupid laws like this, as well as censorship.

As someone who has most of her socialization on IRC now… Eww, mIRC is proprietary and for Windows. Maybe it’s just me having learned about IRC only a couple years ago and thus not having a sentimental attachment, but why use it if you have open-source ones like Hexchat, Irssi or Weechat?

“And the government officials can sell this data to me. Relatively inexpensive too”.

That’s cool. But I doubt every place they park on the street or in counts as an official “parking spot”.

Just strap them into a stroller tethered to the back of the EV.

They need data collected by Windows themselves though.

Not to mention an XMPP server is lighter than even Conduit, let alone Synapse!

If it is a public groupchat - why not?

What about using a normal, non-Cloudflare VPS for this?

I am mostly weirded out by the position of the zero. In Celsuis, zero is in the point that very visibly impacts the world. In Farenheit? Random winter temperature.

AND there have been news that RCS can be blocked for rooted phones and custom operating systems!

I mean the cell modem specifically. But yea, the touchscreens are also a problem.

I don’t see them getting better either - so at least I, maybe because I am not educated enough, think the solution is also in learning to rip out the privacy invasions rather than waiting for regulation or privacy-conscious models.