Comment on What's the deal with Signal?

• zergtoshi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And you seriously think most people would look at and act on such an icon instead of just ignoring it?

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  • voracitude@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Or just accept that not everyone will be having a secure conservation, but more will be secured as more and more people like me convince our family members to use it and eventually we transition everyone away from SMS?

    No, of course not, why would we build a critical mass of users like that?

    Since they removed SMS support my entire family and all my friends uninstalled signal, except a few who keep it to talk to me, and my half dozen friends privacy-conscious enough to care. Objectively, removing SMS support harmed Signal’s popularity and made everyone less secure. The argument for why they did it was at best myopic and also, in my opinion, utter bullshit.

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    • iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This feels so weird to me. I don’t know anyone who has used SMS for communication in many years.

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