I mean with the stupid names, could you not?! carving out interest in this crowded space is a challenge onto itself, you don’t hafta shoot yourself in the foot from the get-go!
that aside, anyone got experience with the thing?
It’s a welsh word.
Not sure why the downvotes but Wikipedia says you are right.
“Cwtch is a Welsh word that means a cuddle or embrace, often associated with feelings of warmth and safety. It can also refer to a small space or cubbyhole for storing things safely.”
thank you! I am also one of the dozens of people who can read, what are the odds we come across one another on lemmy of all places, huh?
while I have you here, would you say that giving unpronounceable welsh names to new entrants attempting to challenge established players with a decade+ strong foothold in this space is a) a prudent decision or b) hella stupid?
we got issues switching normies to signal which has been around forever, how’s tongue-breaker gonna make any progress?
unpronounceable
To whom? Should Welsh people not use privacy software too? Stupid ass chauvinist position
I mean, just imagine you’re spitting game at cutie at the bar and things are cooking and you go “hit me up on hkmbljurgh” and all of a sudden fire and brimstone all around
kthulucthulhu appears wondering why you summonedhimthem you scream sorry bro wrong number bro kthulu goes its aight buthethey missed a dentist’s appointment because of this the barkeep is now pissed who’s gonna clean this up cutie is nowhere to be found…shoulda gone with signal is what I’m saying
Again, stupid chauvinist take. Not everyone speaks English and not everyone uses English pronunciations. Also, cwtch is a relatively popular loanword too, plenty of English speakers have learnt to say it.
You know most of the world finds English spellings hard to pronounce, right? You’re speaking in a language notorious for its inconsistent pronunciations (see “-ough”).
It’s also particularly fucked up to mock Welsh like that given that Welsh is one of the many languages with a long history of children being violently reprimanded for speaking their native language by English people.
To piggyback on this and apply chauvinistic reciprocity, why would you spit anything at some you find cute. They probably decided to leave with Cthulhu, who is confidently, unapologetically, Cthulhu.
It’s a great project. Unfortunately Android consistently shuts it down while it is running in the background.
Thanks for the hint :) probably going to switch from SimpleX to this one :)
Yeah that’s nice, but that premise & use-case is already delivered,
Session does all of that, just in their own “tor-like” network;Also session is a fork of signal without the need of a phone number, you get an “Account IDs” instantly.
Cwtch is doing the same on the Tor network itself, which is great, if tor’s speed / performance is dealt with…
So, what does Cwtch do extra?? Also does it (Smoothly) support obfs4 bridges for firewalled users?
Also, website lacks some technical details, like being a rewrite (& extention of) of Ricochet as stated in their repo & Security Handbook unlike their website’s homepage saying “The Cwtch protocol”…
But the Docs seems nice & the whole app would be a good option next to session, just wha else it offers?
