I don’t know if I’m opening a can of worms here, and I’m still trying to backtrack a lot of history where I was tuning everything out. I keep seeing random swipes at Signal (or the representatives (?)), and I was wondering whether they are founded or just lies.Is it another situation like Lemmy where we just “take the technology and move on”? Thanks!
Well, that must be waaaaaaay back then. I’ve been using Signal for quite a while now, and I am not sure what you mean then.
Dr GPT found something on it. It was a federation between Silent Phone 2014-2015 (a secure messaging app developed by Silent Circle, a company co-founded by Phil Zimmermann, the creator of PGP) and TextSecure (the precursor to signal).
That really is ancient in terms of the internet! Thanks for checking.
You stop that, my first digital text message was on irc. I’m not ancient yet. :)