All alternatives, like Signal, are getting a huge unexpected influx of new users from Parler's shutdown. One of the others was having similar problems a day or two ago. I think I remember seeing that Signal had the biggest boost, too.
I'd imagine that Signal's increase in popularity is overwhelmingly due to WhatsApp's recent changes to their privacy policy rather than Parler's shutdown. More of my contacts have joined Signal in the last week than they had in the last year. I'd be surprised if any of them were ex-Parler users.
Parler was pretty much the antithesis of end to end encrypted and secure, and Signal serves a very different purpose to Parler. From what I've seen on Parler, their average user would dismiss Signal as being produced by commies and therefore evil, due to its Open Source license.
Go back to WhatsApp. Signal is crashing because it appearantly went up 5x in userbase. I can't guarantee any other service would cope with such a rapid expansion of their userbase other than WhatsApp.
this must be a nightmare for them. for all of the new users theyve picked up this past week, how many will they 'turn off' irrevocably because of this. :/
This is happening as many groups of friends/colleagues are trying it out.. Not a great start for most of us, I wonder how many will give up instead of trying again next week or so.
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I just upped my monthly donation to the Signal Technology Foundation to help them offset some of their costs.
https://www.signal.org/donate/
Parler was pretty much the antithesis of end to end encrypted and secure, and Signal serves a very different purpose to Parler. From what I've seen on Parler, their average user would dismiss Signal as being produced by commies and therefore evil, due to its Open Source license.
Or stick it out a little and sms people.