Comment on Samsung is shutting down messages — alternative to Google's messenger?
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 hours agoTwo 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.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 hours 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