SaberhagenTheNameless on Nostr: Pretty much agree with everything you're saying. I use both too. Signal with family ...

Pretty much agree with everything you're saying. I use both too. Signal with family and friends. You're right its normie friendly and was pretty easy for them to transition over. Hundred times better than normal sms texting so I'll take what I can get. I have no solid reason to think it's compromised, but various decisions they've made and events that have happened over time (like them not updating their code for over a year awhile back) just naturally raise eyebrows.

It's not like I think they can decrypt our messages or anything like that (although the desktop app thing was a potential weak point if it was used. Evengy talks about the technical details of this on Gabriel Custodiet and Seths podcasts). More like there is potential valuable metadata for three letter agencies to conveniently harvest from centralized servers. But even if that were true, it is still better than the status quo of closed source social unencrypted (or server side encrypted) media messengers, email, and sms so I don't worry about it much. I'll use something else like SimpleX over Tor for anything requiring stronger anonymity and metadata protection.