• AlecSadler
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    10 months ago

    True, but my entire family uses iPhones and I made them all switch to Signal.

    iMessage isn’t required.

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      10 months ago

      All my family uses Android, except for a few exceptions. They all dropped signal when it lost sms support. So we use sms instead, fucking cool move signal.

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        10 months ago

        We don’t use Signal for SMS, we use Signal for E2E encryption. Signal for SMS is useless.

        I’ve basically started telling people to either message me on Signal or I likely won’t respond in a timely manner, if ever. Not my problem. Urgent? Better call.

        Dick move? Maybe. But fuck SMS and fuck iMessage.

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          10 months ago

          We don’t use Signal for SMS, we use Signal for E2E encryption. Signal for SMS is useless.

          Of course you don’t because it doesn’t exist anymore. When it did, it was popular for exactly the same reason as iMessage: if the person you’re messaging also has Signal, they get automatically upgraded to private and secure communication, if they don’t it just gets sent as SMS. In this way you don’t have to bounce back and forth between apps to figure out which one your recipient is using.

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          10 months ago

          Nah, that’s like saying “I won’t respond to a fax in a timely manner”.
          SMS is dated/dying/dead