Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?
Steve@communick.news 5 weeks agoIf 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 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.
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.
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
Steve@communick.news 5 weeks ago
No we were talking about Signal.
That’s what the comment you responded to mentioned.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Two things happening.
Signal never supported the type of RCS that google messages and iMessage use.
You might have an easier time evangelizing signal if it also did SMS. But I believe them if they said the mixed messaging was more damaging to the UX than the slight advantage it granted.
Especially since it can’t do RCS, since google is a monopolist.
BladeFederation@piefed.social 5 weeks ago
And alternate apps exist, but combining them confuses people into thinking SMS is secure.