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I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I've been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better.

I plan to turn PrivacySpreadsheet.com into a place for privacy data on everything from cars to video games. It's all open source too on GitHub.

Not trying to advertise, I just put a lot of time into researching all this, and I want to share it since I think others could benefit.

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Except Signal UI is... Not good. It feels like using a texting app.

Between the UI and dropping SMS support, I can't get anyone to use it anymore, and people I had using it have moved on.

Dropping SMS is really frustrating - it was the big selling point I had.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I’m one of those people who thinks SMS has no place in a private messaging app. Signal is the gold standard, and enabling sms merely legitimised this incredibly non private and antiquated messaging protocol.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    And gave a constant reminder to people that something better was right there.

    And put things in one place.

    You're letting perfect be the enemy of good. At least with SMS support I could get people to switch to "this new texting app", and we'd then have a proper Signal encrypted chat. And when they texted someone else, Signal would append the "you could have encryption too" signature, generating a conversation about it.

    The people who moved off of Signal went back to SMS entirely. How is that better?

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