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 16 hours agohas signal gone back to sms or am I still expected to somehow evangelize all my contacts into also using it
Steve@communick.news 16 hours ago
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 16 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 15 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.sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
and yet here we are discussing alternative SMS apps, no? One might assume people want an app that can do sms to replace the sms app that is going away
trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I wasn’t even aware that removed sms support. It’s been ages since I used sms.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 10 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 10 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 10 hours ago
oof. my condolences