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by antisocialist 579 days ago
> Now, there exists a minority of extremely technical computer user for which Signal is a nonstarter (because you need a smartphone and valid phone number to enroll in the first place). > there presently isn’t really a good recommendation for private messaging that meets their constraints.

You don't need a phone number or a phone for https://haven.xx.network and there are others.

If nothing is recommended, fine, but it's simplistic to not recommend or even consider the 3-4 apps that don't have those limitations. If you didn't have time to investigate or couldn't find anything else, say so.

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> If nothing is recommended, fine

You could've ended your sentence there.

Just because other apps don't have those limitations doesn't mean they also offer comparable cryptographic security.

Haven appears to be a blockchain project, built with Next.js, and doesn't appear to implement any cryptography.

If it isn't end-to-end encrypted, it's not in the same league.