It could be a technical reason relating to Signal.
I wish I had a better answer than Signal for messaging, but it is the best we have right now. Most people who are security or tech familiar are very disconnected from what ordinary people can use or are willing to learn to use.
We need tech that has sensible defaults, low user complexity, and minimal new user friction. Right now, that’s Signal.
Most tech I make these days doesn’t even require an email. I generate keypairs behind the scenes instead and use QR codes to manage identity. After accessing the service, I then can escalate with unobtrusive notices (Provide your email to recover your account, etc). This auto-account pattern eliminates entry friction.
Of course, you need bot mitigation so a privilege escalation can be used as a user progressively explores more capabilities. The technical of this is a bit involved but the end-user experience is very low friction.
This gets a user invested (they can see content and actually interact with it), which then gives them a reason to progressively use more features.
Just theoretical right now but we’ll see if it works for layman users. If someday people use it over Signal, then I’ll know.
Ya gotta love the one coward that downvoted this and doesn’t have the balls to show themselves in an explanation why.
Just like ICE, they’re spineless.
It could be a technical reason relating to Signal.
I wish I had a better answer than Signal for messaging, but it is the best we have right now. Most people who are security or tech familiar are very disconnected from what ordinary people can use or are willing to learn to use.
We need tech that has sensible defaults, low user complexity, and minimal new user friction. Right now, that’s Signal.
Most tech I make these days doesn’t even require an email. I generate keypairs behind the scenes instead and use QR codes to manage identity. After accessing the service, I then can escalate with unobtrusive notices (Provide your email to recover your account, etc). This auto-account pattern eliminates entry friction.
Of course, you need bot mitigation so a privilege escalation can be used as a user progressively explores more capabilities. The technical of this is a bit involved but the end-user experience is very low friction.
This gets a user invested (they can see content and actually interact with it), which then gives them a reason to progressively use more features.
Just theoretical right now but we’ll see if it works for layman users. If someday people use it over Signal, then I’ll know.