Skiff was a cool private ~productivity suite. Now they're shutting down after being acquired One more example of how important Signal's 501c3 status is--a structural safeguard protecting privacy in an industry where $ is generally tied to surveillance. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…

Introducing usernames and phone number privacy on Signal! We’re making it possible for people to connect with each other without having to share phone numbers. Now launching to beta users, available for everyone soon. signal.org/blog/phone-num…

Usernames...for everyone!!! Usernames are now out of beta and available for anyone using the latest version of the Signal app. 🎁❤️

Now in beta on Android & Desktop, coming soon to iOS: Save custom nicknames & notes for anyone you’re chatting with on Signal, even if they aren’t in your phone’s contacts. Useful for adding missing letters in a lazy friend’s profile name or a reminder about where you met.

For all of you, who like me, use Signal constantly before and after usernames...GREAT NEWS! We've added a new feature we're calling "nicknames." It allows you to save new contacts, without having to put them in your phone's address book.👇

Now live for everyone on iOS, Android, and Desktop 💫

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

Great thread from Matt, an experts’ expert, on the vast (vast!) differences between Signal (gold standard for private comms) and Telegram (not private, not secure, but happy to market themselves that way) 👇👇👇

Minor news, starting now! I’m based in the EU through the end of the year, and am looking forward to engaging more easily and frequently with the great security, privacy, bringing-sanity-to-AI work happening here ❤️

Es wird Zeit der Datenkrake den 🖕 zu zeigen! Tu es für dich, deine Familie und Freunde!!! Es ist noch nicht zu spät... Delete #WhatsApp and Install #SignalApp

War ja klar das #Durow irgendwann einknickt. #Telegram arbeitet also in Zukunft mit den Behörden zusammen. 😂😂😂 Deshalb #SignalApp Der einzige sichere #Messenger Alles andere ist nur Gelaber... #WhatsApp #Hart m.winfuture.de/news/145492