There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.
This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.
Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current “Linux = Ubuntu” .deb repo.
To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.
I’m thinking about abandoning Signal given the fact that they use AWS servers, still insist on requiring a phone number to use the APP and haven’t yet implemented nicknames like Telegram
If you want absolute control over your communications, the only way is to self-host an XMPP server
Your data is always encrypted before it reaches the AWS servers though, so it’s not like Amazon has access to them. The phone number/nicknames is still in progress, but it’s hard to do that securely, and given that their user base is really big now, they also need to make sure it works well for everybody.
Why not matrix?
Both are great for chat! End of debate.
Yeah Signal sucks a lot. It is poorly very convenient to use.
XMPP had too little funding. But it could totally replace Signal, no question.
SimpleX is also cool and truly privacy first