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by Freak_NL 408 days ago
> I feel that the Signal folks are worth trusting.

The MobileCoin integration and the long standing refusal to support a way to use the messenger without using a phone number (or a smartphone at all) make me wary. To me they sit pretty much on the same level of trust as Meta's WhatsApp, which is a sad thing to have to conclude.

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This. Session does desktop and mobile cheerfully without leaving metadata enabling government real-time location tracking.
And cheerfuly does bunch of other things https://soatok.blog/2025/01/14/dont-use-session-signal-fork/