I am torn on how to handle both Signal and BlueSky. They are definitely outside of the big tech, privacy violating bunch but ultimately still part of the US ecosystem.

Especially the recent event that Elon pressured the Reddit CEO to censor a subreddit keeps me thinking.

  • BlueSky does in theory have federation support, but it is still in its infancy. It is also still a company, albeit a public benefits one, and thus has a commercial interest. Most people are leaving X for BlueSky so true momentum is building there rather than in Mastodon.
  • Signal is a foundation but servers are fully US based thus still under US jurisdiction (like the CLOUD Act). Signal is the biggest alternative messenger and even there it is hard to build enough momentum to move entire groupchats from Whatsapp to Signal.

How do you view the situation?

  • guest@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    Thanks all. I think I made a decision now.

    • Stick to Signal
    • Drop BlueSky
    • Adopt Mastodon, Matrix, and Threema to help build the network effects there.
    • VisionScout@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      if you want to avoid signal with also a state of the art client, it would be simpleX. They are UK based i believe, but you can use your own server to pass messages