• Señor Mono@feddit.orgOP
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    3 days ago

    It isn’t at all. It is closed source powered by an American non-profit organization. You can consider this organization as friendly.

    They recurrently said, they would shut the gates if U.S. government/law wants them to store more than metdata (phone number+last activity date) they are storing.

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      3 days ago

      So noodlejetskis comment below is wrong?

      Thanks for the info BTW, I’m an avid user and proponent of Signal (best out there today eh.)

      • @Valmond @SrMono Most popular out there and one of the easiest to set up / easiest to convince non-tech users to switch over to. Not the best… For me, that award would go to Matrix / Element.

        Threema would be second (and should be first), but many will balk at the shocking fact that they dare to ask money to contribute to their development and operation costs…