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Signal Desktop without a smartphone, standalone version in development (aboutsignal.com)
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[–] Stupendous@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

I'm excited but I still detest phone number requirements. Android RCS is a huge improvement over SMS/MMS but what I'm still hoping for is federated end to end encrypted chat to become mainstream. We figured out email, we can figure out text, audio, and video chat