My Open Letter to Signal:

Hi Guys and Gals 👋

I just wanted to bring to your attention that Signal is being talked about openly on Yarn.social (https://yarn.social) – An open privacy focused and decentralised micorBlogging social media I launched in July 2020.

Please have a read of https://twtxt.net/conv/wt5j2xq

This Yarn (as we call it) has numeric forks (sub-topics) already and is becoming quite controversial.

A couple ofthose controversial topics are Signals’s plans for:

• Introducing some kind of SPAM filter.
  

At first I thought to myself, this is utter BS; since you can’t do SPAM filtering on ciphertext where the keys on with the client, not Signal. But then I read a bit more and it seems you’re attempting to solve a problem I’ve also been a victim of, but not that often.

Can we talk about this one in the open and potentially persuade you guys down a different direction?

• MobileCoin
  

I’m not even sure what this is why Signal feels the need to be in the “Mobile Payments” market.

Care to explain why we need this? In the spirit of openness and transparency, I wholeheartedly believe Signal should continue to remain being good at one thing and one thing only

Protecting the privacy, security and freedoms of individuals and groups to communicate with one another.

Finally I am a big proponent of Signal and what you guys do. I encourage all those around me to be on Signal and use Signal in their daily lives.

Let’s continue down this journey together 🤗

Kind regards

James