• verysoft@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      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.