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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

As long as it's implicit right and is a reasonable price I 100% will be getting it. I am willing to pay someone else to securly hold my (e2ee) data.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

Cloud backups, for security!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

If anyone is actually going to get that right in a mainstream product, it will probably be Signal.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

Year according to a wiki page on the unofficial Signal wiki the backup will not be directly linked to the user "It appears that backups will not be directly linkable to a user. Authentication for operations against a given backup will use zero-knowledge proofs.".

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Nice. I don't think I need this but its good to have options

[-] [email protected] 141 points 1 week ago

As long as they leave the local backup option that sounds like a good idea to me.

[-] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago

Makes sense., something as huge and expensive as Signal can't run entirely on donations.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Sure it can, just look at Wikipedia. But it's probably a good idea to have some alternate forms of revenue generation.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Wikipedia has a lot more donors, but also their costs are probably cheaper than Signal. They mostly host text and decently compressed images, Signal uses way more bandwidth and people share high quality videos and other huge files. The servers are very expensive, there were articles estimating their cost to be around $50M per year.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

Good to see they have some reasonable revenue streams lined up.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

At least this time they do it out in the open, not like with the MobileCoin integration.

[-] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's a pretty good idea for monetization.

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[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

As long as they dont shove it down our throats, and then expand and expand and expand the features that are in their paid tier, and make you feel lesser for choosing their local only unpaid mode, and dont make the unpaid mode inconvenient with dark patterns.

Its happened too much, I've asked my friends to hop through so many different platforms over the years and decades

It always starts with something thats reasonable, and every time thus far, it expands into something I hate.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

Finally a good approach at raising money (other than donations)

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

I have no issue with this, I personally wouldn't use it but I get that they need to make money (which is why i have a recurrent donation every month).

If this helps them to do that, then so be it

[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

If this feature rolls out but you can't pay for it. You can always use Molly (fork of signal). If you can support the project than do it. But if you can't than don't force your self

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Excellent news honestly. Trying to get people to switch to something encrypted and the one thing I've thought of is that I want to know it can continue indefinitely. Everything else in life costs money- we just never think of it computer wise because we pay with our data and privacy.

This can join threema with a solid revenue stream. I back mine up locally but would pay for this anyhow.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Glad to see they are establishing useful streams of revenue

I, however, will continue using Molly in combination with Syncthing

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

All of my signal conversations have auto expiry

Do people really use their conversation logs for things? Are you often searching your conversational logs?

Outside of corporate compliance issues I can't imagine the workflow for most people

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Yes, and yes.

"I said this was happening 3 weeks ago. Here's the literal text of me sending it to you and you saying 'Okay thanks' in reply."

Shuts down an argument real quick.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

History search is great when you have a lot of friends and poor memory. Perhaps not your use case ?

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Signal backups are an issue. They keep growing. I need to look into a solution sooner or later that isn't just buying a phone with more space. I'd like to find ways to reduce the size and keep managing the backups myself, but that's gonna take time. If they offer a secure, private, and affordable service, I'd prolly just redirect my donations to that.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I don't mind paying a fair price, for a service, so they should go for it. I use both Signal and Telegram, and I would pay for Telegram too, if the price was more fair...

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't use Telegram, let alone pay for it. So many red flags with Telegram.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Feel free to list them - with evidence and not just prejudice...?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago
  1. No end-to-end encryption by default, you have to explicitly start a secret chat. That means that instead of it all being encrypted noise, secret chats stand out.
  2. Servers are not open source (last time I checked). Why not? Seriously, why not?
  3. Admittedly, not much of an issue any more, but in the beginning they had horrible security (so did WhatsApp until Facebook threw some competent engineers at the problem)
[-] [email protected] -5 points 6 days ago

There's end-to-end encryption. It's fine that you can chose what needs to be private, and what doesn't need to be.

There could be several reasons as to why the servers are not OS. Why do you need that part to be OS? Seriously, why?

Oh, so your problem with Telegram is, that it had some issues in the past, just like EVERY other app in the beginning? Nice one. :-)

So, let's summarize.

  1. You lie, and say that there's no end-to-end encryption when there is.
  2. It would be preferable to have OS servers, but it's not a major issue, since everything else is.
  3. You have an issue with something in "Back to the Future"... Which is no longer an issue.
[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Woot?! (not op),

  1. He said "no e2e by default" which is true. Straw man/missrepresentation
  2. You post on the fediverse, which is decentral - why shouldn't you want this for telegram too? Open source server would allow to check / trust code, host your own, be more resilient against central attacks/malicious intend. Also you just waved it away saying it is not a biggy - maybe to you.
  3. Last time I checked telegram still has major trust issues for me. No way to know how much governments are involved, code is not independently checked for security (happy to be proven wrong on especially the last one)

Its totally fine that you like telegram, but you can do that while acknowledging others preferences

[-] [email protected] -2 points 5 days ago
  1. it's not true. Default calls are encrypted.
  2. I have not said anything about what I want for Telegram. Are you trying to make a straw man here? Not that you want to interject yourself into this debate - then tell me, what is the big problem with the serverside not being OS? I did write it would be optimal, but what is the big issue for you? Try to answer without making another straw man about something I didn't say... ;-)
  3. I don't care about your trust issues. Go deal with them...

So far, don't you think that you really would know, if government was involved in any way that didn't involve crime fighting? Do you prefer an app, where crime roam free? Is that your issue? That it doesn't?

AFAIK it's you and two others, who don't acknowledge my preferences... So please consider following your own advice!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You lie, and say that there’s no end-to-end encryption when there is

That is not what I said. Please take a deep breath, maybe go outside for a minute, and read my reply again.

[-] [email protected] -5 points 5 days ago

First of all, you injected yourself in my debate with another person. You do it by answering for that person, which mean, you lie by default, since you don't know that persons answers. Then you say there are no end-to-end encryption by default, but that depends on what you use it for. Calls are encrypted by default.

But nice to know that you really didn't have any serious red flags. Now it would be nice to hear from the person I was originally debating with...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Ah sorry. I thought you were here on lemmy for an open discussion and polite, good-faith arguments, not just trolling and name-calling. My bad.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

So, where did I use name-calling?

An open discussion is always welcome. Someone hijacking a conversation is not. So yeah... your bad.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago

Sorry, I don't talk to liars.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Being one yourself, that would make sense. You'd have a strange conversation.

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Would pay for

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

I commented this in the other thread, sharing it here as well

I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅

When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.

Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it’s a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.

Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It’s time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users

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