iopneed.blogg.se - Signal messenger read receipts

Both dictate what’s allowed on their respective networks and thus could change the rules at any time. You’re only allowed to connect to the Open Whisper centralized servers which are under Moxie Marlinspike’s control. With Signal, you’re not allowed to create federated servers. With Telegram, you’re at the mercy of Pavel Durov deciding how things work with their centralized servers. Will Signal or Telegram ever become awful or shut down? Probably! Both actually promote an open-source nature whereas the code for the Telegram client is completely open to forking and both the Signal server and client are open source. Personally, I’m getting pretty tired of recommending instant messaging apps to friends and family or coworkers only for them to eventually become awful or shut down. Today we have dozens and dozens more internet messaging apps/services, and just about all are repeating the same mistakes of the ones that have failed.

Random new chat app, centralized server.Facebook changes policy and starts using WhatsApp’s user base to sell advertising.Īnything Google (Sorry I don’t have time to list all of the failed Google messaging apps).

WhatsApp bought by Facebook, apps not maintained for all platforms, removed from some platforms.

Internet messaging that matches your phone number with phone numbers in other peoples’ phones in order to easily connect you, centralized servers, promises of respect for privacy, no 3rd party apps.

Facebook Messenger heavily used for privacy violations and collecting data on users in order to sell advertisements.

XMPP standard removed, 3rd party app integrations removed, Facebook app integration removed, separate Facebook Messenger app required, mobile web browser access to messages blocked.Conveniently integrated with the Facebook apps, uses standard XMPP tech, allows 3rd party apps & integrations, centralized servers.