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  • Re: “Signal technically cannot know your social graph” (…)

    I would go into the specific points, but really none of this invalidates my main point that Signal is a marked step forward, seems to be having some success, and that undermining that success is therefore misguided. Heck, Signal might be a stepping stone to people using whatever decentralised system you prefer! I was around in WhatsApp’s early days, and never adopted it, because the picture was never as rosy as Signal’s. Of course, it did become significantly worse when Facebook acquired it, but that happens to be exactly the thing that can’t easily happen to Signal.

    I will say that I agree that nothing is eternal, but that’s no reason to encourage people to stay on WhatsApp (which is what disparaging Signal use will actually achieve).

    No, in a decentralized system, (…) you can be your own service provider

    My point was that you’ll be communicating with people each of whom chose their own service poviders, and thus you’re also trusting those.