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  • spacedance@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You heard a cool new word and used it where it doesn’t work, this feature isn’t bad at all. If Signal didn’t alienate a large number of users by removing SMS maybe switching would be more viable.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      alienate a large number of users by removing SMS

      Would you mind elaborating on this?

      SMS in Signal was never secure (it’s SMS), and so it was removed. Now I have private messaging in Signal, and if some one sends me an SMS, it shows up in my stock texting app. No false sense of security and it’s very easy to use 2 apps.

    • Bye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yes I dropped signal when it stopped supporting sms. That was a really dumb choice and I honestly don’t know why they did it

    • fernandofig@reddthat.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      If Signal didn’t alienate a large number of users by removing SMS maybe switching would be more viable.

      This. I hate Whatsapp, but I have to use it because that’s what everybody else (where I live) uses, so either I cave, or be Incommunicable by everyone and get used to explaining why while sounding like a dork.

      I used Signal because, although a very small set of friends used it, I had an excuse to keep it because it handled SMS, and so I could keep it in the hopes that eventually WA would shoot itself in the foot and people would finally migrate, but since they removed SMS, why the hell would I hold on to it if I’d have no reason to other that I like it?