{"id":90,"date":"2022-12-23T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T18:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=90"},"modified":"2022-12-26T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T20:45:04","slug":"signal-down-enter-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/?p=90","title":{"rendered":"Signal Down Enter The Matrix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listening to: <a href=\"https:\/\/aerialeastmusic.bandcamp.com\/track\/running-up-that-hill\">Aerial East &#8211; Running Up That Hill<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photo: I hate sleeping alone. Inanimate anthropomorphic objects are not an acceptable substitute.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-01-11\/why-whatsapp-s-privacy-rules-sparked-moves-to-rivals-quicktake\">WhatsApp&#8217;s recently announced policy changes<\/a> (now &#8220;delayed&#8221; three months), a lot of folks are trying to switch to Signal. Which is awesome. But Signal is struggling with the influx of users at the moment (read: it&#8217;s down).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another option, one I use, is <a href=\"https:\/\/matrix.org\/\">Matrix<\/a>. It&#8217;s easy to get going, just install one of the many <a href=\"https:\/\/matrix.org\/docs\/projects\/try-matrix-now\">Matrix Apps<\/a> on your device and there is usually a wizard to step you through signing up. You may get a choice of servers to use and there are\u2026 thousands. Do the research or just accept the default. They are all independent but communicate with each other. It&#8217;ll be fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matrix is arguably more powerful than Signal, and is also IP based (so you need a data plan or WiFi). No need to hand out your phone number thou (umm, don&#8217;t), in fact most logins just require an e-mail address for verification and password resets etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ping me <strong>@flay@matrix.org<\/strong> if you do sign up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ps. I use <a href=\"https:\/\/fluffychat.im\/en\/\">Fluffychat<\/a> but <a href=\"https:\/\/element.io\/\">Element<\/a> is a good bet for most users. Hell, try a few.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening to: Aerial East &#8211; Running Up That Hill Photo: I hate sleeping alone. Inanimate anthropomorphic objects are not an acceptable substitute. After WhatsApp&#8217;s recently announced policy changes (now &#8220;delayed&#8221; three months), a lot of folks are trying to switch to Signal. Which is awesome. But Signal is struggling with the influx of users at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dretch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}