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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2025
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That's a risk, and a reason I'd like to see something federated succeed in this space. Unfortunately neither Matrix nor XMPP has managed to achieve quite the level of UX necessary for mainstream adoption, nor have the average person's tech skills and comfort level improved.
Signal's status as a well-funded nonprofit gives me hope that the current situation is reasonably stable.
Several XMPP clients look perfectly fine
I'm sure there are several I would consider fine for me.
I'm skeptical that they can be fine for someone who doesn't know what federation means, isn't especially upset that a handful of megacorporations control most human communication, and already finds the fact that I'm asking them to use anything different from what they're used to annoying. XMPP has more things for the end user to think about than Signal does even if a client is very polished.