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Please bring back SMS support. It's hard enough to convince people to use Signal in the first place. Nobody is going to juggle multiple apps, they'll just go back to SMS default app.
Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp? I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar featur…
Anyone know of a fork of signal that disables this keeps the SMS feature?
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I imagine it's a lot of hassle to maintain and outside of the US SMS is basically as dead as landline phones. They probably consulted their usage statistics when they made that decision.
Why do people keep spreading these lies about SMS being dead outside the US?
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I think that's called Matrix and we already have that. Anyway, good luck getting Signal to federate with you until you have enough of a user base that they're losing users to your backend. They have zero reason to want to do this, and it introduces some privacy issues (what if your server doesn't respect deletions, etc?).
We even had it long before that. It's called XMPP, it's the internet standard for instant messaging and modern clients implement Signal style encryption.
XMPP is just SMTP and some protocol addons on top. SMTP is just FTP with RFC 469 and others. Etc.
Don't care. They can paint that thing in whatever color they want. I'm still not using a messenger with an algorithm developed next door to the NSA headquarters.
Not sure I understand. My impression was that the end-to-end encryption algorithm was probably the most secure thing about Signal, allowing strong encryption between sender and recipient without relying on trust of the central server. Regardless of where or how it was developed, it's open-source.
Trivia: What percentage of open source end-to-end encryption algorithms were developed by coincidence next door to the NSA headquarters?
The announcement says “give the people what they want”. You know what I really want in Signal for iOS? Backups, not stories. Congratulations for launching stories, but I honestly don’t understand why it has been prioritized over backups (E2E encrypted of course). That’s a major missing piece to replace WhatsApp and other messaging solutions.