There are so many great reasons to be on Signal. Now including the opportunity for the vice president of the United States of America to randomly add you to a group chat for coordination of sensitive military operations. Don’t sleep on this opportunity…
Editing to add the link to the messages: https://archive.is/2025.03.26-131842/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176
Matrix has other issues, something like session might be more equivalent to signal.
Such as? If you want to write lackluster information-free messages like that, you should at least provide your list of things with zero issues whatsoever so we can compare. Session definitely doesn’t have zero issues whatsoever.
I agree. Their comment is probably one of the more useless comments I’ve encountered on the subject.
Fair call. Other people have commented on issues with matrix so I won’t dilute the thread by repeating that. I mentioned session as an alternative because it meet the criteria set for the poster by being decentralised. It’s also E2EE and routes messages via onion so encourages anonymity.
There are a heap of comparisons available on the different encrypted messaging apps, but they all put different weight on various features which can skew perspectives. Here’s one for consideration:
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
Personally I use signal, matrix and session, and think they all satisfy the requirements for my threat model.