Based on our record, Signal seems to be a lot more popular than LocalSend. While we know about 180 links to Signal, we've tracked only 12 mentions of LocalSend. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Have you tried LocalSend⁽¹⁾ before? I share the same experience with Snapdrop-like websites, self hosted or otherwise, where establishing connections would have a 30% failure rate, speeds progressively deteriorate on very large files, and bundling files together would need them to zipped first which can waste time. LocalSend has none of these issues and has been rock solid in my year of use so far, and I also like... - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago
I agree and get your point. But localsend has worked well for me. Yes, it requires an app but if we could get vendors to bundle that rather than a boatload of bloatware. I know that it would be to optimistic to hope for Google. See https://localsend.org/ Spread the word. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
But they also have Terms of Service (https://localsend.org/#/terms-of-service) which are not so great:- Source: Hacker News / 3 months agoYou represent that you are over the age of 18. The Company does not permit those under 18 to use the Service.
[1]: https://localsend.org/#/terms-of-service. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
They have the best privacy policy ever: https://localsend.org/#/privacy. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Just so you know: https://grapheneos.org/ and https://signal.org/ do exist! - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Signal works the same but without the user tracking from Meta/Facebook. Many people use it as well but I'm surprised that a majority sticks to WhatsApp. Source: 6 months ago
A question I often get is "Well are my text messages safe" The short answer is... Maybe? Depends on what type of phone you use, your carrier, and a bunch of other factors. One way to avoid this is to use an end-to-end encrypted text service like Signal if that is a concern of yours. VERY IMPORTANT NOTES: Telegram and WhatsApp are not secure. The way to think of this security is that if is retained by a server... Source: 6 months ago
The linked page is on signalusers.org, but Signal's regular home site is https://signal.org/. I'm looking all over signal.org for some link from there to signalusers.org, as that would make me more relaxed about the authenticity of the latter -- i.e., that it really is run by the same people who run signal.org. Yes, maybe I'm being paranoid. But we're talking about an app whose whole purpose is secure... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
WhatsApp and Signal: Of course I’m going to conclude with the point to point encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp. Most of our clients around the world communicate in these apps more than they make phone calls or send emails. Set up an account in each app and start leveraging the text, photo, phone and video features to have easy and fast conversations with your global contacts. See https://signal.org... Source: 12 months ago
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