That's cool but everyone in my family that I convinced to use Signal just stopped using it because it was their default SMS app. Now it's not.
Who uses SMS? I am always surprised when this feature is being mentioned.
Android users apparently.
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#92Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?
You can just go into settings and turn it off...
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#93I won't be using this. You know what I do use on Signal, SMS. But apparently useful things don't make a good Gen-Z app.
I don't get this at all. If all you're using Signal for is SMS, why not just switch to a good SMS app?
Why use multiple apps to text people? I don't us FB messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, or any of that. I use Signal. Signal lets me send a message to ANYONE else with a phone number protocol agnostic. That's very useful, especially when I'm talking to committed iMessage users.
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#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Who uses SMS? I am always surprised when this feature is being mentioned.
My SMS use: 1) Spam (~40%) 2) Transactional messages (~40%) 3) Conversations with old (45+) relatives (~15%) 4) Conversations with people I barely know (parents of kids' friends, people responding to a web market listing, that kind of thing) (~5%)
Yeah, but why do you need Signal to handle those messages?
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#95My gut reaction to this was disappointment that Signal is working on yet another not-messaging feature a la their crypto integration... But the longer I think about it, the more positive I feel. I actually enjoyed using stories on other social media platforms before I left them. The idea of something similar, but end-to-end encrypted, is actually exciting!
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#96I actually like the idea of Stories (vs say a giant group text), but I don't think 24 hours is workable for the people I Signal with because we're not in Signal routinely enough and everything will just delete before anyone sees it. If it were configurable I'd probably set it to a week or a month. Actually, I don't know why they would fix the time at 24hrs. We've always been able to set the time period for disappearing messages.
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#97I love how Signal (and WhatsApp adopting Signal's protocol) made privacy easy for the general public and technically inclined alike. Privacy will never be the default until it's made easy. I'm guessing some folks won't like use feature because it's too "social media-y" (myself likely included) but as they say in the post: - You can turn the feature off and you won't see other people's stories - You can choose the aud…
> I love how Signal (and WhatsApp adopting Signal's protocol) made privacy easy for the general public and technically inclined alike. Privacy will never be the default until it's made easy.
WhatsApp did not really adapt it in privacy mind, to be fair. All metadata is unencrypted.
Meta harvests your contact information, intervals and time when you message specific persons. Often, this information is more interesting than the message content itself.
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#98My gut reaction to this was disappointment that Signal is working on yet another not-messaging feature a la their crypto integration... But the longer I think about it, the more positive I feel. I actually enjoyed using stories on other social media platforms before I left them. The idea of something similar, but end-to-end encrypted, is actually exciting!
I had the same thought process. I still use Instagram, but only post stories. It’s fun and less pressure than posts, and get to share fun and irreverent things with friends.
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#99I really feel like the best Signal today is Whatsapp. It implements almost the same protocol and is 1) super lean and 2) everyone already has it.
The reason it's not the "best Signal" is that WhatsApp doesn't have reproducible builds or any guarantees that e2e isn't subverted on the client side or removed entirely. And it's run by a company with incentives that are misaligned to e2e encryption and a history of product updates that don't respect the privacy or preferences of the end user.
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#100I really feel like the best Signal today is Whatsapp. It implements almost the same protocol and is 1) super lean and 2) everyone already has it.
It is not the same. WhatsApp (and Meta) collects all the metadata, which might be worse than the message contents itself. It is just their marketing, it is not very private after all.