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I realized this as well the first time I logged in the account of the bot I develop and maintain: it's quite creepy.

I'm open to changes but I absolutely need a system with a desktop client and an API or something to interface it with hubot. So Signal, as the author suggested, is not a valid alternative for me.

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Same here. I will migrate to Signal and try to convince my network to do the same the second there is a good cross-platform desktop app and all clients have full functionality.

I've been experimenting with ricochet.im as a desktop client.

Ideally, it would be great if Signal and Ricochet could merge best of breed features. That could mean a unified app across mobile and desktop with good security over Tor...

A downside with Ricochet is that it reveals when you are online to anyone who knows your id.

> Anyone with the onion address can still estimate availability by watching descriptors

https://github.com/ricochet-im/ricochet/issues/155

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