@FediTips Yes, he is heavily involved (thanks for the research, and, yes, I agree that one person having multiple key roles is very unhealthy!), but I’m sure he is not able to act unilaterally.

It’s absolutely the right thing to encourage use of secure messaging, and highlighting more secure systems away from less secure/private ones (eg, SMS, Telegram, WhatsApp), but while some interesting options are still less mature, a usable solution is surely better than none?

@FediTips Signal is aware of the problems of centralisation and does continue to work on improvements in that regard. You’re right to flag that as a concern, but be fair.

Yes, Brian Acton, formerly of WhatsApp, is now more recently involved with Signal (after having belatedly realised Meta couldn’t be trusted with WhatsApp), but he neither runs nor “owns” Signal and as open source tech it can’t be sold to Meta, etc (and would be forked if sthg bad ever did happen).

@FediTips @briar Come on, those sneers at @signalapp are unwarranted.

#SignalApp was created by very privacy focused devs, its encryption tech is well regarded, and more recently even helped by a donation from one of WhatApp’s founders, who, after selling that to Meta, then realised that secure messaging •without that taint• is still necessary!

Sure, publicise other •security audited• systems •easily usable• by •non-techie• people, but…