Failing to connect those dots is (unfortunately) what keeps many, many people from moving their otherwise private conversations to a more private channel. I think you're right that it bears mentioning.

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lxgr 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Many people are absolutely convinced that their phones are listening to their in-person conversations already, yet seem ok with continuing to use them.

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copper-float 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What's a sufficiently private/secure messaging platform? Signal comes to mind, but I'm open to alternatives.

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nickburns a day ago | parent | next [-]

Definitely Signal. It strikes the fairest balance between industry-standard end-to-end encryption ('E2EE') and usability.

Get as many of your contacts onto Signal as you can. Disable the displaying of message text within device notifications from within the Signal app settings (for both Android and iOS).

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dmos62 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A few people gave some input on this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945392

Signal and Threema seem to be known for good UX and viability as everyday messengers.

There was this table: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html

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SoftTalker 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

GPG-encrypted email.

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lxgr 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

GPG doesn't support forward secrecy, which is table stakes for encrypted messaging these days. And that's to say nothing about the slightly suboptimal usabilty...

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		True, but you're not trusting any corporation to do what they say they are doing, or not changing it out from under you. I guess you're trusting the Gnu people though.

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towers 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Hard to convince others that are less knowledgeable and/or involved to use this over a typical mode of communication like Signal.