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As a happy user of Signal (no bugs or incidents from my viewpoint), I regardless chime in to say a word for decentralization. :)

Signal is centralized:

  • there is a single Signal implementation, with a single developing entity
  • you have to install its mobile version before you may run the desktop version

There exist protocols like Tox which go a step beyond Signal and offer more freedom -> have multiple clients from diverse makers (some of them unstable), don’t have centralized registration, and don’t rely on servers to distribute messages - only to distribute contact information.

In the grand comparison table of protocols (not clients), Tox is among the few lines that’s all green (Signal has one red square).

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Tox isn’t the most secure or private. I would go Simplex Chat

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Session seems really good.

(Except their crypto token bullcrap)

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Not anymore. They have made hostile changes are are screwing over there early adopters. It also lacks forward secrecy

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