Needed this timeline cleanse 😌

I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.

You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc.

Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.

It usually answers most of their questions.

This is specific to open source, but perhaps a good starting point: https://opensourcely.org/

It’s easy to scoff at this whole “You will own nothing, and you will be happy” phrase, but it’s really gone too far already.