So, I've been arguing with myself over whether I should resurrect my #Telegram account or not. From various sources, I get the impression that their platform isn't all that secure despite their claims. If memory serves, one of the sources said they wouldn't trust it with anything more than a casual conversation, and definitely wouldn't trust it with more sensitive topics. I'm not interested in using #Meta services, so things like #Messenger & #WhatsApp are not options I'd consider. At this point, my messaging options are #Signal and #Matrix even though the latter isn't the most #accessible option. Heck, when you get down to it, the former has a few accessibility annoyances on #Android which is the mobile platform I use. Decisions, decisions...
The #DigitalMarketsAct mandates Meta to "enable end users to freely choose to opt-in to [combining or cross-using personal data] by offering a less personalised but equivalent alternative".
When I pointed out to Meta that by offering users to either #consent to #SurveillanceAds or pay € 275 per year for #Instagram & #Facebook isn't "equivalent alternative" they said, Meta has to do that because of #GDPR 😤 Really??
In any event, it sounds like #WhatsApp is planning to make #interoperability opt-in only; but not in the way I suggested, which is give WA users a yes/no button when a non-WA user asks to connect, just like #Signal does already for Signal users.
I interpret #Meta's response to my question as meaning that WA users will have to actively switch on interop in the settings before people can ping them.
If running flatpak version, and have installed flatseal (flatpak mgmt control centre), there is a setting under environment variables to flip from 0 to 1.
Just had a video call on #Signal with Buba Kuteyah, who lives in the #Gambia and has neither refrigeration nor running #water, as is typical in his area. He and I are writing a petition re: GSRMs to the #IMF & WB and organizing a global general strike. Until we have the numbers to ensure this petition will be heard and addressed appropriately, we are building autonomous mesh network communications infrastructure to mediate free south-to-north labor organization.
Facebook messenger, WhatsApp, and Signal LLC may be interoperable in the near future.
Facebook was forced by the EU DMA to open up, and is complying without issue. Facebook/Meta will interoperate with services that use the signal protocol. (maybe Google Messages too!)
This is incredible!
It may soon be possible to use a signal client to contact people on WhatsApp and Facebook.
Meta implementing interoperability on the signal protocol could cause signal to become the standard universal messaging protocol.
Signal is an encrypted messaging application that supports post-quantum cryptography.
Google Gmail is the email provider for Signal Messenger LLC, this is the company that develops the Signal messaging application and the Signal protocol.
Signal support can be contacted from within the application by going to Signal Settings (profile) > Help > Contact Us.
After a long hesitation I finally installed #Signal. Along with Fb Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Google Messages… it is yet another #messaging app on which I have to make myself available. For only a dozen of contacts listed, I still wonder if it is worth it.
“... #Signal can’t interoperate with another messaging platform, without them raising their #privacy bar significantly... Because we don’t just encrypt the #contents of messages... We encrypt #metadata, ... your profile #name, your profile #photo, who’s in your #contact list, #who you talk to, #when you talk to them. That would need to be the level of privacy and security agreed across the board... before we could consent to interoperate.”
I still have a happy social life and I am totally satisfied with the wonderful communication I have in the #fediverse since 2018. On my own instance. Because decentralisation ;)
(I still miss Google+, apologies if that doesn't fit your agenda ;)
Ne réussissant pas vraiment à convaincre mes proches à #Signal, je me demandais s'il existait des applications libres prenant en charge les #RCS ?
Je sais que c'est un protocole initié par #Google et qui, progressivement, va s'étendre aux iPhones d'Apple. Ce système prend en compte l'envoi de vidéos, les discussions de groupe, les "réactions"...
Je suis sous /e/OS dégooglisé.
So mal was ganz neues von mir 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Die Funktion bei Signal sich einen Nickname zu erstellen ist ja seit ein paar Tagen aus dem Beta-Status Ich hab vermutlich vorhin bereits die erste Spam-Anfrage erhalten das hat also nicht lange gedauert.