I think you don’t understand what “privacy” means. Being anonymous is the highest achievable level of privacy. There are levels before that, and Signal is at the bottom of the spectrum (WhatsApp is not even on the spectrum)
=> Signal is doing a bad job if it’s goal is “privacy”
Signal does nothing more than hiding message content, which by your own words is “of course not” privacy. Signal could be a lot more private, but it is not and it doesn’t want to be. I’m done talking to you, I can’t get much clearer than that…
Anonymity guarantees that many aspects (all?) of privacy can’t be violated. When e.g. Signal doesn’t know who you are (anonymous), metadata about you doesn’t violate your privacy either. What else do you need?
Considering that anything you post here should be public, the only real privacy concern is your identity. So yes, Lemmy respects your privacy because you are anonymous.
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I think you don’t understand what “privacy” means. Being anonymous is the highest achievable level of privacy. There are levels before that, and Signal is at the bottom of the spectrum (WhatsApp is not even on the spectrum)
=> Signal is doing a bad job if it’s goal is “privacy”
Anonymity isn’t privacy, and privacy isn’t anonymity. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Do you define privacy as “message content is hidden, everything else is irrelevant”?
Of course not, but it is a known fact that anonymity isn’t privacy.
Who says privacy equals anonymity?? No one here.
Signal does nothing more than hiding message content, which by your own words is “of course not” privacy. Signal could be a lot more private, but it is not and it doesn’t want to be. I’m done talking to you, I can’t get much clearer than that…
Signal could be more private indeed. But:
is obviously a misguided statement.
Anonymity guarantees that many aspects (all?) of privacy can’t be violated. When e.g. Signal doesn’t know who you are (anonymous), metadata about you doesn’t violate your privacy either. What else do you need?
My comments on lemmy are completely anonymous. Would you claim they are private?
Considering that anything you post here should be public, the only real privacy concern is your identity. So yes, Lemmy respects your privacy because you are anonymous.
You. Literally contradicting.