Look I get that people love to shit on Signal because its not perfect, but this is the main reason I use it to call and message my family. It's a viable alternative to insane shit like Messenger and you should consider having your family members install it. It's incredibly easy to use.
Cue someone below me talking about how they set up a Matrix or XMPP server for grandma and its 'so easy' once you get the presence handshake working and if you're using a specific set of clients that support the right features.
This is an interesting question. Doesn't Signal rather famously not track anything about who you're talking to? Reputational damage to Signal's brand aside, I expect it'd be hard to sell advertisers on a black hole.
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Look I get that people love to shit on Signal because its not perfect, but this is the main reason I use it to call and message my family. It's a viable alternative to insane shit like Messenger and you should consider having your family members install it. It's incredibly easy to use.
Cue someone below me talking about how they set up a Matrix or XMPP server for grandma and its 'so easy' once you get the presence handshake working and if you're using a specific set of clients that support the right features.
Is there a reason Signal couldn't put ads in their video call product?
This is an interesting question. Doesn't Signal rather famously not track anything about who you're talking to? Reputational damage to Signal's brand aside, I expect it'd be hard to sell advertisers on a black hole.
You can have advertisements without tracking. See the original TV ads.
The "tracking" was done by monitoring spikes in sales (using a promotional code) and "focus group" interviews from customers.
These days the accuracy of tracking has improved immensely.
If they did, you wouldn't be able to use a fork or another client because it isn't federated unfortunately.
that doesn't mean you can't fork the client. See telegram for an example of third party apps without federation
Because you can just take it out: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android
I believe it is non-profit currently, so making money is not their top priority.
Non-profits still have to stay in business. My health insurer is "non-profit".
So why did they think they had to do the crypto token thing?
Doesn't Signal have $50 million in debt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)#Developers_a...