Relatively long time Signal user (2+ years) from Belarus. Was in the city when internet blackout arrived.
I don't want to waste your time on how i moved 30 people to Signal and preached about security and signal being the best pick on the market. Hell, even my family is on Signal.
Now, let me tell you this. The `anti censorship switch` did not work during the internet hiccup. In a moment all that fancy stuff just ended up being.... useless.
So check this out, i have family members living outside Belarus, they have Signal installed. But i am not able to message quite blatantly simple phrase "i am all right!".
Next thing happened i fired up Telegram, hooked up SOCKS5 proxy and was capable to reach out my family members and asked friends to go on Twitter and get @signalapp's attention same evening outage started. Zero reaction.
Signal was and is dead silent. This makes me think that, come on, people Signal caters to the USA users only. They won't care for others. Moxxie denouncing american police for their brutality, you've been to Chernobyl, you know what Eastern bloc looks like. Guys over here are three times more fierce than yours. But your company somehow makes a statement to accommodate local protesters, now what have you done to aid anything outside of cozy California?
Lesson i've learned, that on the verge of something Belarus experienced last week, Signal has zero value.
I even own the debug logs to send 'em so they will figure why the censorship circumvention wasn't working, but i'm drop dead sure i won't hear from them.
Not being a hothead to get rid of Signal straight away but definitely i have to tell you my trust in Telegram's resilience grown
I don't want to waste your time on how i moved 30 people to Signal and preached about security and signal being the best pick on the market. Hell, even my family is on Signal.
Now, let me tell you this. The `anti censorship switch` did not work during the internet hiccup. In a moment all that fancy stuff just ended up being.... useless.
So check this out, i have family members living outside Belarus, they have Signal installed. But i am not able to message quite blatantly simple phrase "i am all right!".
Next thing happened i fired up Telegram, hooked up SOCKS5 proxy and was capable to reach out my family members and asked friends to go on Twitter and get @signalapp's attention same evening outage started. Zero reaction.
Signal was and is dead silent. This makes me think that, come on, people Signal caters to the USA users only. They won't care for others. Moxxie denouncing american police for their brutality, you've been to Chernobyl, you know what Eastern bloc looks like. Guys over here are three times more fierce than yours. But your company somehow makes a statement to accommodate local protesters, now what have you done to aid anything outside of cozy California?
Lesson i've learned, that on the verge of something Belarus experienced last week, Signal has zero value.
I even own the debug logs to send 'em so they will figure why the censorship circumvention wasn't working, but i'm drop dead sure i won't hear from them. Not being a hothead to get rid of Signal straight away but definitely i have to tell you my trust in Telegram's resilience grown