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Incredible tweet from signal cofounder. (nitter.net)

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There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity…

Editing to add the link to the messages: https://archive.is/2025.03.26-131842/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago

Fair call. Other people have commented on issues with matrix so I won't dilute the thread by repeating that. I mentioned session as an alternative because it meet the criteria set for the poster by being decentralised. It's also E2EE and routes messages via onion so encourages anonymity.

There are a heap of comparisons available on the different encrypted messaging apps, but they all put different weight on various features which can skew perspectives. Here's one for consideration:

https://www.securemessagingapps.com/

Personally I use signal, matrix and session, and think they all satisfy the requirements for my threat model.