One of the more limiting things about Signal is you have to give out your mobile number to everyone. Even if it is a burner, I still don't want to advertise to the world that it's mine.
Was happy to read today that Signal is now beta testing a new username feature.
https://community.signalusers.org/t/public-username-testing-staging-environment/56866
isn't @signalapp centralized? shouldn't we all be moving to something that isn't?
@wjmaggos what decentralized equivalent to Signal?
@railmeat @briankrebs @signalapp
that's a great question. @matrix?
@wjmaggos @railmeat @briankrebs @signalapp @matrix or alternatively #xmpp / @snikket_im which has OMEMO that's based on the same double-ratchet algorithm as Signal. It also bridges well to SMS and voice phones using jmp.chat (or similar Vonage/Twilio for non-US/Canada numbers)
Matrix has some nice features that XMPP lacks, but XMPP is still a well used and reasonable alternative.
@keverets @wjmaggos @railmeat @briankrebs @signalapp @matrix @snikket_im
I used to mess around with Jabber back in the old days. If I remember correctly you can run your own server and it's configurable with xmpp markup.💬