@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Do you happen to use Signal btw? 🤔 If you do, it would be great if you could join the Yarn.social Signal Group (_at least until we have Group support and better apps for Salty.im 😅)
Alternatively there is the #Yarn.social IRC channel on Libera Chat if you’re in to IRC 😅
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Ahh fair enough 😅 Totally get where you’re coming from 👌 I very nearly left Signal myself for similar reasons… I haven’t yet, only because Salty.im isn’t where I’d like it to be (yet) – soon™ 🤞 – I’ll catch ya on IRC then, sorry not a fan of XMPP, tried and just keep giving up 😅
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci > this app basically took over my phone number
Is this an Android-specific thing? What the heck?
@prologic@twtxt.net Libera’s insistence on giving them an e-mail and my real IP address makes me really not want to give them either one. Otherwise, I’d probably talk in IRC regularly.
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci That sounds awful. I had to give Signal my phone number, but I assume that’s so people can find my account? It couldn’t reroute messages within my phone.
@mckinley@twtxt.net FWIW, spam on IRC is really, really prevalent, and IRC has limited systems to handle it. I know they’ll let you cloak your info with regards to other users seeing it, but trusting them with it is somewhat important to them managing the server.
Russia has some ties to Telegram, but I don’t think they have ways to control Signal.
I don’t use it, so it doesn’t effect me either way, other than peeking my curiousity. Also even if that was somehow the case, there are still Signal forks, with their own servers.
I use XMPP and Matrix myself and was also very skeptical, when it came to the push to add crypto to Signal. Especially as someone who had to jump the Keybase ship years ago, for similar crypto and ties to a dictatorship (in Keybases case China) reasons. 🤔
@abucci@anthony.buc.ci Interestingly enough, Signal has announced plans to deprecate SMS/MMS support entirely. So even if I had a phone which could tamper with my text messages, Signal soon won’t anyways.
Since I’ve solely installed Signal to talk to the Yarn social Signal group, and that’s not a sensitive communication, it doesn’t bother me if it’s compromised very much.