Signal has it yes
My bad... It wasn't supposed to sound that aggressive.
And to be honest: there is no confirmation for a free tier but I strongly believe (and hope) so because most people nowadays assume everything to be free and if they see Signal not having a free backup plan everyone would go
aAhHhHHHhH they are so greedy i thought they are a non-profit.
(I mean people who don't care about privacy and only use signal because their privay-aware friends told them to)
No i think you misunderstood. Local backups (as we have them now) will (most likely) stay.
I'm gonna be honest. I chose a random article by JWZ and read it. The only thing they are talking about is the contact discovery system. If they don't want contacts to be uploaded (encrypted) then simply don't give signal the permission. And that the author moves to facebook messenger because there
at least the privacy failings are obvious
just shows how the author isn't even interested in secure and private messaging but only in defamig signal
I think in your (and most other) case(s) the free tier would be just fine
Okay so I've been using Signal for over two years now and would like to address your critical points:
- I switched from my old phone to my current phone without losing even one message. Not even safety numbers changed
- Yes you have to give them a phone number. And yes atm everyone is able to see them. This will change this year as usernames are coming. The phone number will from then on only be used for verification and stored encrypted
- I have three devices: Phone (Android), Tablet (Android) and PC (Linux). All of the messages get synchronized properly and almost instantly
- I don't know what you mean by this exactly but I think you mean that the official Signal server doesn't support forked clients which is false if you take a look at Molly (which I'm using on my Tablet due to several reasons)
In terms of reliability in general I never experienced any issues with Signal. It works great even in bad internet connection scenarios.
Matrix is more for communites
Has a much smaller userbase and not tech-savy people wouldn't undestand why you want them tp use session.
Should be the 2024.2 february release
Then they should aswell
We will get another part this year which plays somewhere inbetween "Alien" (1979) and "Aliens" (1986) according to space.com
The only, really only, case in which you should plan that much into the future is when you're a gov / politician / business. Plans for the average person never work out