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Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.

But Signal is open source…?

Getting a phone number was relatively cheap and easy, so for a one-off implementation, Signal was an easy choice as it’s what many friends and family already use.

What would be the advantage?

Yep. I keep an old phone for the bot to be a linked device.

Now there’s something I’ve not thought about in a while. HDMI-input…

I’ve written a Signal bot that listens for messages from my wife and me. It’s for sharing pictures of our daughter with a small list of people that want baby pics. The images we send it get blurred and sent as a preview, with an unblurred version sent as a “view once” image. Each blurred image contains an ID so that recipients can request the images again.

As I said, the format and the cadence that results from what people optimise for is what turns me off. I don’t want portrait video on my phone, at all. I don’t want min maxing for short run time.

It could be about my favourite topics and I still wouldn’t want to watch it, anymore than I want to watch films on VHS or listen to music on HitClips.

Uhhh, no? I get that I’m apparently alone in that, but I find both the format and the cadence of content it results in horrible.

Didn’t Instagram add those stupid things because it was desperately trying to compete with TikTok?

I love having a platform that isn’t trying to do short form portrait video. Everywhere wants to do it and I detest the medium. It’s so boring!