Signal, the encrypted messaging app and WhatsApp alternative, explained
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Summary
Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Still, many users — goaded in part by Musk’s tweet — flocked to other encrypted messaging apps like Telegram (now No. 2 in the App Store) and Signal (now No. 1). Signal, typically praised by privacy proponents and left-wing activists, is topping the app stores along with other privacy-focused social media alternatives like MeWe. It’s unclear how much the shift to these apps is being buoyed by people from the fringe right in need of new places to communicate. While Signal has its downsides, including the fact that it notifies users every time a new contact gets the service and that you can only communicate securely if others have the app, it’s generally considered to have good enough privacy for regular people.
As said here by Rani Molla