I wish I could be excited for this but after no longer being able to use it for SMS and shoving crypto in it… Well, I just don’t wanna use Signal anymore :(
Why use Signal for SMS if they are unencrypted either way?
SMS support got more people to use it, its easy to convince friends/family to swap if they can do all their regular texting in there. I understand why they removed it, but I think they did it way too early, they still needed a larger userbase.
Because if the username is a phone number, it is just very convenient. If someone I know switches then I keep the entire conversation with them and just continue. If I want to encourage someone I know, I can just tell them about the features they’ll get with Signal rather than trying to sell them a platform which kind of sucks on desktop.
Do you Matrix instead?
I do use Matrix but not for the same purpose.
Are users still required to provide a phone number?
I don’t want it to turn into Telegram, just give me a lightweight, secure and privacy focused messaging app.
I mean, username vs phone number kinda doesn’t matter anymore since it doesn’t even do SMS anymore. This is probably the most popular change they could do and which has the least consequences on bloat.
Why would this specific change affect these things in a bad way?
Matrix is what you’re looking for.
It will be difficult to switch my friend groups again, now that they are finally on Signal
Definitely. Also, everybody will blame all issues they run into on you.
Hopefully this is a step towards using the same signal account on multiple phones.
That would be nice
Fantastic _ Hopefully this can makeup for the lack of SMS support
