Ok here's my proposed solution: 1. Be Indian 2. Create rebranded fork of Signal 3. Give it an Indian name and call it "Made in India" 4. ??? 5. Profit
All the alternatives I know are backed by for-profit corporations. So privacy concerns still remain. Few notable ones I came across are/were:
Hike (was shutdown last week) JioChat ShareChat
Edit: Why? Because the public should know the people who have significant amount of influence in society.
The public doesn't know about Diffie Hellman or Brian Acton or Mike Schroepfer or Alex Halderman and yet here we are.
What else do you need to know about Moxie Marlinspike or Matthew Hodgson and Amandine Le Pape beyond their technical blogs, opinion blogs and conference appearances and the products they put out there ? To decide what ? What does it change regarding their work being done in the open ?
If you suspect them of something there's nothing in the world that they could say or put out that would convince you they aren't... what ? Why is being secretive suspicious and concerning ? What are you suspecting ? You already know more about their name and what they do and think that people who worked on covid vaccines and that has a significant amount of influence and society.
Isn't there a `made in India` alternative trying to get into that ?
> Penetration of Signal in real world is way too different from what it "feels" here on HN.
No, it's not that clear cut.
My only tech friend in my peer group is the one reluctantly moving to Signal while his SO and 20 of his SO's friends are moving to Signal. (sidenote: I asked about Telegram and the consensus seems to be "yeah but it's the united arab eminates, right ? no.")