Pay each of your friends $50 one per month, to switch to signal. Problem solved

lukeschlather an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it.

Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook, with the assumption that data is precious and you want to share it with your community, and you should err on the side of oversharing so you don't lose any precious moments. Signal is in no way a replacement for Facebook.

	▲	tim-projects 29 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it. That's... Just not true > Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all.
	▲	DANmode 29 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It is if Facebook was never a good fit for you in the first place.

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freedomben an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

$50 per month for unlimited, not $50 per friend, so your solution only works if you only have 1 friend, so it would work for me (self-deprecating joke) but may not for GP.

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lostlogin an hour ago | parent [-]

> Pay each of your friends $50 one per month

It an outlay of $50 a moth. Probably better to pay 50/number of friends though.

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rkomorn 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

$50 a moth? How about just a lightbulb and an open window?

	▲	lostlogin 9 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It took me several re reads to get it.

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fsflover an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Or, better, Mastodon or Matrix, which don't rely on a single, easy-to-target server.

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dreamcompiler an hour ago | parent [-]

This works for friends and family members who are computer geeks. Signal for everybody else.

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fsflover 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

I don't see what's missing in Matrix. Yes, the verification may be somewhat cumbersome, but I helped to deal with it, and it just works now.

	▲	hgoel 11 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		A friend and I have been running a private Matrix server for almost a decade now, it's very lacking in comparison to what the average chat user (especially discord) is used to. No custom emojis, no self-chat, embeds are inconsistent (e.g. encrypted rooms), multi-image uploads aren't a thing in many clients, adding text when sending an attachment isn't a thing, just to name things we've run into over the years. Most of these have been brought up to the devs many years ago, only to spend forever in spec hell and never actually make it into a release. We're just tolerating these, because we explicitly moved off discord to have control over our data, but being tech savvy we can handle this. It's nowhere near good enough that I could use it with less savvy people.
	▲	john01dav 35 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Everything about matrix is cumbersome and glitchy. I have last tried to use it a few years ago and it seemed that Riot/Element had the only decent clients, and those were all Electron on desktop and also seemingly for profit. Signal has the electron problem, as well as many others (like the backup UI being abhorrent), but at least the core functionality works without fuss.