“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”
This isn’t an ad, I wasn’t paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍
Been using Signal for a very long time now, with my SO, parents, brother and a few friends. But it’s inevitable to also use WhatsApp side by side. Selling/Buying on the local marketplace? WhatsApp. Workplace colleagues? WhatsApp. That group of buddies where only 1 or 2 converted to Signal? WhatsApp.
Same thing here, only a couple of my friends have Signal. Everyone else uses Whatsapp.
WhatsApp has full E2EE and you can configure it to only store messages and backups on your device. Obviously others could save a cloud backup, but the backup is still fully encrypted as well. Messages aren’t accessible by Meta and they can’t be forced to turn them over to local governments, so it’s really not a bad messaging app overall if you have to use it.
I’d be fine with using it as my messenger of choice if they open sourced it and allowed us to run our own servers