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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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Sunflier@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Mothra@mander.xyz 17 hours 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.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
It is already clear, since both apps mentioned are specifically for handling sms
Mothra@mander.xyz 16 hours ago
Yet at the time of my comment, not a single one of the suggestions handled sms
Sunflier@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Fixed
Mothra@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
I never figured how to sms through signal, works great as a whatsapp alternative though
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 10 hours ago
It was removed a few years back
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 17 hours ago
has signal gone back to sms or am I still expected to somehow evangelize all my contacts into also using it
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I wasn’t even aware that removed sms support. It’s been ages since I used sms.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 12 hours 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
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Depends on the country, here almost everyone is in whatsapp. I haven’t been able to ditch that because of work and hobby groups.
Steve@communick.news 17 hours 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 17 hours 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.
Steve@communick.news 17 hours ago
You can do all that using any other SMS app and Signal.
Literally the only gain is having one app instead of two.