CYcyphar·May 12, 2019
I've been switching people to Matrix recently, mainly because they have a solution for losing your chat history (you don't, at least not with the new key backup system) and there's a lot of other features like bridging and federation. Matrix is far from perfect at the moment but I feel that it will end up being a much more complete solution than Signal (the new seven-word key verification system is really cool and much better than how verification works for Signal).
> Not both. Why? I don’t know. But Signal insists that it is more secure.
It's because the provisioning support is only implemented in the JavaScript "SDK" (in scare-quotes because we all know Moxie is very hostile to users using apps other than the one they publish).
Not only that, there were PRs that implemented the core functionality required and Moxie effectively said that
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the author was too inexperienced for the patch to even be worth reviewing[1]. There are third-party signal clients[2] which use that patch to allow for you to create "virtual devices" in your shell and thus (in theory) script signal chats or create Matrix bridges (I hope to do the latter at some point).
[1]: https://github.com/signalapp/libsignal-service-java/pull/21
[2]: https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli