Remember in the mid-2000s when the cool internet thing to do when visiting family was to install Firefox on their PC and convince them to switch from IE?
The nerdy among us should start doing that type of thing again for browsers, search engines, messaging apps, social networks, etc.
@mike privacy as the main thing yet still nice to use and is good at group chats, attachments, etc. default end-to-end encryption, no apparent backdoors govs can exploit (basically it’s what telegram pretends to be)
@mike matrix is new to me but will check it out!
@mike oh i think i remember matrix now — it was gonna be like a fediverse-ish slack replacement originally? think i was listening to a podcast by the creators, but it’s been a while, if im even remembering the right project.
@sabbatical yup, sounds like you’re thinking of the right one. :)
@sabbatical anything specific that draws you to Signal?
I’ve been toying with Matrix lately on the hope that I can get a bridge setup for the people I can’t convince to switch.