Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?

trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  has signal gone back to sms or am I still expected to somehow evangelize all my contacts into also using it

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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you don’t evangelize all your contacts into using it, you wouldn’t get any benefit from using it for SMS anyway. That’s they removed SMS support, it confused people about the privacy of SMS messages.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The benefit for me was having an sms client that wasn’t Google’s. Additional privacy with other users that were already onboard with their own volition was a bonus.

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      • Steve@communick.news ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can do all that using any other SMS app and Signal.
        Literally the only gain is having one app instead of two.

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  • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wasn’t even aware that removed sms support. It’s been ages since I used sms.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was a pretty big bummer. Most people in my circle were using it up until that point. But, you know, the rest of the employed world operates on sms so waddya do

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      • trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the rest of the employed world operates on sms

        Depends on the country, here almost everyone is in whatsapp. I haven’t been able to ditch that because of work and hobby groups.

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• Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does that carry over all the conversations? Does it go to the phone numbers directly? Or, do they need Signal too (like woth TeamSpeak or Discord)?

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I would recommend you update the post title to clarify you are looking for an app that handles SMS and not just any regular messaging app. Signal requires the other user to also use signal.

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    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It is already clear, since both apps mentioned are specifically for handling sms

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      • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yet at the time of my comment, not a single one of the suggestions handled sms

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    • Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fixed

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I never figured how to sms through signal, works great as a whatsapp alternative though

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  • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It was removed a few years back

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