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Yeah, won’t lie. Signal jumped the shark a while back. The elimination of the ability for it to handle SMS/MMS on Android was the last nail in the coffin for me.
I don’t get why everyone is so butthurt about this when literally NO other encrypted messaging app had this feature on Android, such as Whatsapp or Session, and this was never a feature on iOS to begin with. Signal getting rid of SMS support makes it just as usable as… drumroll WHATSAPP. I just see it as an excuse for people to dislike Signal or an excuse as to why they are not using it even though all other alternatives never supported it anyways.
Because it was my AIO general messaging app. Since most people I know do not use it, it sits unused most of the time for me, and since sms was removed, I’m using other apps. I had been using signal since before it was signal, so it wasn’t just a flu by night choice for me. I still have it installed, but I might get a half dozen messages a month in it versus my previous everyday usage.
Once i started using Signal more like Snapchat and less like my messaging app I found that I really don’t miss sms at all. Not saying it’s the same for you but i kinda like having one app that i know for sure is safe. I also convinced all of my friends to download it and once we got a group chat active people have started using it more and more to the point that ~99% of my messages are through signal. Kinda a pain in the ass to convince the first couple people to install it but once enough people have it installed it then it’s an easy sell.
That’s why. No other service was as easy to get people to use because they could just use a single app between sms and better messaging. The small handful of people I had convinced to use anything other than regular texting are done with it now.
You gotta realize, it doesn’t matter if you and me use it if 90% of everyone we know doesn’t. We’re stuck either just abandoning contact with those people to preserve our privacy, or abandoning that for them.
Maybe that is the case elsewhere but in the US pretty much 90% of people I know use iPhones so it does not make a difference here.
And? You asked why other people are annoyed by it.
I personally don’t like signal due to its phone number requirement and that it isn’t on F-droid.
It also doesn’t help that it is starting to feel like a social media app
Yeah the addition of stories seems unnecessary and thus far completely unused.
I mean everyone is doing it, so gotta be cool with the cool kids, right?
…i kinda like them…
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I love end to end encryption encryption!
Obligatory link to Why not signal
Thanks for sharing!
