Signals registrar is Markmonitor and is hosted from the US. Should everyone stop using signal?

Op didn’t ask for security practices.

What is the benefit to using your own key on top of protons encryption? Why not just use your own encryption with any other provider?

This privacy community and the conspiracies or flat out misunderstandings that are coming back from the Reddit grave feel like they are coming from the anonymouse joker and Rob Braxman.

I agree the balance is difficult and I agree asking later sometimes yields different results. My for instance about a sub and corresponding question asked endlessly is the privacy guides sub where people ask something like: “I’m using brave or firefox browser how do I be more private?”

Like my man you are on a discussion sub for a website literally full of instructions and recommendations with a link to that site pinned to the top of the sub. My goodness it can barely slap you in the face any harder.

It’s not as bad as it was but the question is so vague that it almost demands follow up questions like what country, what threat model and what OS? It’s not as bad anymore but it got super old and its the questions that are too general to be helpful and repeated hundreds of times over that really depressed me to read.

The middle legs are those the horse half or the centaur half?

Asking questions that are asked all the time in a sub or are already answered in the wiki. Not doing even basic searching for information before asking.

My next laptop will be a framework. They offer parts and manuals and it is built to be fixed and upgraded instead of thrown away like almost everything else now. https://frame.work/

Just going to add it does look like its available on android through izzyondroid fdroid repo. I’m not a developer and I wanted toupdates automatically as they are released so this is great.