@lexinova @lucien_pca @aboutsignal @session Hello, Signal is having a moment and someone has just claimed they’d seized this opportunity to switch from WhatsApp.
Just as a reminder, WhatsApp is deeply intertwined within the military-industrial complex. This isn’t just about resilience in case of a US embargo, but about withdrawing your support from a company willfully and actively enabling this political crisis.
Speaking as a huge decentralization nerd: Signal rocks, and there’s no serious EU-based Signal alternative. Delta is OpenPGP-based and Session depends on a cryptocurrency token so they’re both striked out on any ground you’d wish to use Signal for.
As a matter of fact my partner and I plan to self-host email infrastructure, several Bonfire instances, and a Cwtch server, for several organizations. As a sociology student I have a legit resume based on my own personal self-hosting projects, and I’m not wishing that to anyone else. We still praise the Signal Foundation’s work.