Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[xorollo@leminal.space]

Precise language is important if you want to understand and communicate truth. It helps a lot to understand the difference between privacy and anonimity there is a scenario where a person doesn't care that an adversary knows their id, but does care about the content of their messages. In which case, differentiating tools that provide that particular service requires language to discuss it.

[deadcatbounce@reddthat.com]

Did anyone tell the WhatsApp users?

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

He clearly does care about the phone number.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

If you struggle making a new email address, this is not for you.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Unregistered users can't chat, so it needs a number, like OP said.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Unregistered users can't chat, so it needs a number, like OP said.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

It's not anonymous.

[amzd@lemmy.world]

During onboarding of the app you only choose a name and get a random email address

[konstant@lemmy.world]

How can we tell them if we aren't in Whatsapp?

[maniel@sopuli.xyz]

Fragment it's the first time I hear about Delta chat

[zangoose@lemmy.world]

Signal is private in that other people can't intercept your messages, including signal. The signal app is open-source so you can be relatively certain it's not tracking your decrypted messages, unlike closed-source apps like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger or any other private social media.

Signal is not anonymous from an account standpoint, because you need a phone number to sign up, even if you can choose not to display it in your account.

[sabrew4k3@lazysoci.al]

Wall of text? I provided information requested and then went back and provided more information to clear up a claim I got wrong. Let's not focus on how we get the information, but rather what the information is. If it's not for you personally, just move on.

[sabrew4k3@lazysoci.al]

Thanks for pointing this out. I'm guessing part of this is why so many messengers either create a new protocol or choose XMPP

[athairmor@lemmy.world]

Which applies to 99% of people making Delta Chat not a viable alternative to WhatsApp.

The Fediverse has the same problem that Linux, and Open Source in general, struggles with. The barriers to entry and network effects work against widespread adoption.

Until technology is packaged in a way that makes it dead simple and/or unavoidable, people won’t make the effort to move en masse.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

This does nothing to fix the problem.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Try telling people around you instead of random strangers and try getting more people around you.

[fundmecfsresearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The difference is signal has millions of users and most people have already maybe heard of it.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

You want them to shill to fewer people here? That does not sound helpful to either side.

[brewchin@lemmy.world]

Email? So its just encrypted SMS?

Might come down to the metadata, then, like SFTP vs FTPES or GET vs POST.

[jubilantjaguar@lemmy.world]

It's considered a good idea because it runs over omnipresent, already-existent, distributed infrastructure. In other words, for this particular chat app, you don't even need to create an account. That is at very least an interesting and noteworthy feature.