Under Meredith Whittaker, Signal Is Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong - eviltoast
On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.
    • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      They also added stories which, despite what the internet might have you believe, was one of the most popular feature requests on the Signal message boards for many years

      This was weird for me personally. I consider Signal a messaging tool which in my mind is separate from an actual social media app, so it was a bit of a head scratcher for me to see stories as a very popular feature request. I don’t really care about sharing “stories” in that format to my contacts or seeing theirs, but then again that’s just me.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
      214·
      4 months ago

      Does signal meta data allow for signal to time stamp witu who you communicate using their app and servers?

      Side note, PR like that costs about 15k fyi