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With E2E encryption in place by default is there any real advantage in using Signal instead of Riot client for everyday communication with my friends? Riot desktop app is definitely more polished and customizable, video quality on all of my devices also seems to be a lot better.

Surprisingly the only thing that I am really missing is the ability to use custom sticker packs which got added to Signal a few months ago.

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A short while ago (maybe 2 months?) I tried an audio call from Android and while I don't remember the details, the experience was bad enough that we both agreed to not do that again and use Signal in the future.

RiotX Android doesn't support calls at all according to the Play store page, while the old Riot Android client doesn't support cross-signing, search doesn't work, and it overall feels unpolished. It's still very much beta software.

VoIP has historically been a second class citizen in Riot, but we're trying to fix that right now. The implementation in RiotX is in mid flight up at https://github.com/vector-im/riotX-android/compare/feature/v... and Riot Android will be killed off shortly in favour of RiotX.

I miss Telegram's stickers like crazy. I'm going to try to contribute art once they get the feature out.

sounds awesome - I am looking forward to it

Signal supports SMS, so you don't need dedicated app and can handle them all in one app

I think they had more metadata collection than signal mainly due to the design. They were making progress on it however, but I dont know the status of the work.

If you don't have any servers, you don't collect any metadata ;) We're playing with this at https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/dip_p2p_matrix/ and live at https://p2p.riot.im (albeit very alpha)

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