Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?
Steve@communick.news 14 hours 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 14 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 14 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 14 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
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours 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.
Steve@communick.news 13 hours ago
No we were talking about Signal.
That’s what the comment you responded to mentioned.
BladeFederation@piefed.social 6 hours ago
And alternate apps exist, but combining them confuses people into thinking SMS is secure.