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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)

submitted 3 days ago by unglueclass23@programming.dev to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] someone@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes, Signal is completely unusable unless you're using a phone with a closed source operating system with Signal linked to the phone number.

Even if they are creating a Linux version, I don't trust them at this point and think they are likely creating this as a hacking vector. It took them too damn long to do this, and they have never let people with higher threat models register without a number. The whole thing is sus.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I don't trust the Signal people much either. But I don't really care: I use it mainly to share grocery lists, photos of work sites with builders, talk to friends or share non-important photos and videos easily and instantly without paying. And I can tell those who want to contact me to install it, it takes them 10 seconds and it's done. It's not about privacy for me, it's about convenience and not paying the phone company.

That's why I'm not desperate to make it work with silly workarounds like Mautrix/Signal or put up with Waydroid on UBPorts: if it's not convenient, it's not worth it for me.