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

• 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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  • Steve@communick.news ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No we were talking about Signal.
    That’s what the comment you responded to mentioned.

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  • 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.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I did have an easier time recommending it back then. It made sense to recommend it. But literally nobody I convinced to use it was interested in continuing to do so when the devs removed a basic function

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      • Master@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This is how it was for me and if no one would use it because it didnt even have basic sms anymore there was no point in me using it either.

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  • BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And alternate apps exist, but combining them confuses people into thinking SMS is secure.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can’t control other people’s literacy. But I’m not going to use the messaging app that I can’t apply for jobs or talk to customers with

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      • BladeFederation@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nobody said you shouldn’t use SMS ever. When you can avoid it though, do.

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