- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Do you use Signal for chatting securely with friends and loved ones? Us too! We endorse it wholeheartedly, and rely on it for nearly all our communication.
But the vibes are deteriorating here in the US, and we should have a communications contingency plan for if Signal goes down.
Indeed, I haven’t followed up the history too closely, but it seems like they realized at some point that they couldn’t implement privacy with the first option, which is why they switched to the second.
Regarding forward secrecy, seems like they just announced it last week at FOSDEM:
https://blog.feld.me/posts/2025/03/deltachat-is-actually-good-though/
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/3F9VTU-deltachat-chatmail-relays-multi-transport/
I have the opposite problem with knowledge: I followed them closely when they were purely email-based, and I never noticed all the changes they made. They’ve been tremendous!
Other messaging apps have changed their names, sometimes multiple times, over far less…
Interesting, that must quite the change!
And yeah, I was also there when Element/Matrix was still Riot.im…