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 :(
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.
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.