On: Telegram told to give encryption keys to Russian authorities

[avhon1]

My friends used to use Signal, but we were put off by needing real phone numbers, as well as some persistent errors in the app (communication-breaking ones).

Personally, I'm rather unhappy that Signal isn't federated, and they don't allow third-party apps to use their server.

Finally, the Signal app isn't compatible with my phone. Conversations (XMPP+OMEMO) and older versions of Riot.im (MAtrix) are available to me.

[ptman → avhon1]

Care to elaborate why newer versions of riot.im aren't?

[Arathorn → ptman]

I assume this is just:

https://github.com/vector-im/riot-android/blob/d0cc1053fe7f7...

i.e. Riot/Android requires minimum SDK version of 16 (i.e. Android 4.1).