Tl;dr: big name services are to be avoided as much as possible, but even if I use alternatives like signal, telegram, simplex and such, I wouldn’t say I trust them since they are made by humans, no matter how much the fans defend them.
As far as I’m concerned, no messenger is 100% safe, there will always be one reason or another to suspect a backdoor, man in the middle, your messages being spied inside the server or the host (a remainder that very few people can host their own things for one reason or another), whatever, you name it.
It gets increasingly more suspicious the moment multiple people suddenly appear to attack one service and sing praises to another, specially if they ignore your needs or the chances to move that group of people you need inside that new app.
At least we can count on big corpo apps to be compromised, anything meta, tiktok, microsoft, apple or google; nothing to be done about it since most normal people are afraid of improvement and just stick to what they already know.
I use telegram because of how it works (like, it fills my needs); the pretty stuff and the design allowed me to bring my family and some people I know into it. Signal didn’t really had pretty things back then (nowadays I have no idea since all the fans yell at me is about it’s privacy and that I shouldn’t question any further) and was complicated to setup, no way I could bring anyone over.
I’ve been looking into SimpleX but it’s still not where I could convice anyone to jump over… And I would still need use someone else’s host, so I wouldn’t say I trust it completely.
Tl;dr: big name services are to be avoided as much as possible, but even if I use alternatives like signal, telegram, simplex and such, I wouldn’t say I trust them since they are made by humans, no matter how much the fans defend them.
As far as I’m concerned, no messenger is 100% safe, there will always be one reason or another to suspect a backdoor, man in the middle, your messages being spied inside the server or the host (a remainder that very few people can host their own things for one reason or another), whatever, you name it. It gets increasingly more suspicious the moment multiple people suddenly appear to attack one service and sing praises to another, specially if they ignore your needs or the chances to move that group of people you need inside that new app.
At least we can count on big corpo apps to be compromised, anything meta, tiktok, microsoft, apple or google; nothing to be done about it since most normal people are afraid of improvement and just stick to what they already know.
I use telegram because of how it works (like, it fills my needs); the pretty stuff and the design allowed me to bring my family and some people I know into it. Signal didn’t really had pretty things back then (nowadays I have no idea since all the fans yell at me is about it’s privacy and that I shouldn’t question any further) and was complicated to setup, no way I could bring anyone over.
I’ve been looking into SimpleX but it’s still not where I could convice anyone to jump over… And I would still need use someone else’s host, so I wouldn’t say I trust it completely.
It’s basically a pick your poison kind of thing.