this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
  1. If they were leaking there would be prosecutors using the evidence in court, on the public record.

  2. It doesn't matter what infrastructure that they use because the service provides end to end encryption. This remains secure even if a third party is able to record all of the traffic between the two devices.

  3. Has there ever been a single instance where a Signal client had a RCE exploit? Of all of the software on your phone likely to be exploited, signal is low on the list (your browser is where they get you).

  4. Enshittification is a reason to leave, speculation about maybe possible enshittification in the future is not.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

Finally, common sense. Thank you.