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

• Steve@communick.news ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        oof. my condolences

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