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The feature that I missed the most after switching to signal was Live location sharing. It is just so convenient to find your friends while going out or going t

The feature that I missed the most after switching to signal was Live location sharing. It is just so convenient to find your friends while going out or going to the street exactly at the time someone is there to pick you up.

anthropodie 5y ago
Wow I did not realize that Signal was missing this. I think they are focusing on getting more people on board than building a great app. Too many people blame Matrix but I love it. It's UI is not as polished but hey I can work with it because sooner or later all these centralized apps run after revenue and ruin the most basic stuff that these app should do: messaging.
- Mystlix 5y ago
  what happens in your decentralized system if one of your friends has their account registered on a naughty naughty server that just got blacklisted by the righteous admins of your instance and now you can't talk together anymore? does that person need to make a completely new account just to send some messages to you? does a migration scenario exist? and if it exists, does it warn your contacts and transfer everything seemlessly?
  - deutschepost 5y ago
    Last time I checked Matrix was researching about the topic of multiple homeservers. So you could just use a local homeserver on your device and a remote homesesrver with a fancy name simultaniously. This would also enable users to communicate P2P. But I don't know how advanced this system is yet.
keewee7 5y ago
>after switching to signal was Live location sharing Which messaging apps have actual Live Location sharing?
- Aachen 5y ago
  Telegram
  - deutschepost 5y ago
    WhatsApp too…
    - fragmede 5y ago
      As do Facebook Messenger and iMessage
waah 5y ago
Don't you get this if you click on the "+" icon? I see options for Camera, GIF, File, etc. then "Location" and I've sent my location this way. Using iPhone.
- argiopetech 5y ago
  Same on Android.
- deutschepost 5y ago
  You can just send your current Location. Not have the message update continuously.

anthropodie 5y ago

Wow I did not realize that Signal was missing this. I think they are focusing on getting more people on board than building a great app. Too many people blame Matrix but I love it. It's UI is not as polished but hey I can work with it because sooner or later all these centralized apps run after revenue and ruin the most basic stuff that these app should do: messaging.

Mystlix 5y ago
what happens in your decentralized system if one of your friends has their account registered on a naughty naughty server that just got blacklisted by the righteous admins of your instance and now you can't talk together anymore? does that person need to make a completely new account just to send some messages to you? does a migration scenario exist? and if it exists, does it warn your contacts and transfer everything seemlessly?
- deutschepost 5y ago
  Last time I checked Matrix was researching about the topic of multiple homeservers. So you could just use a local homeserver on your device and a remote homesesrver with a fancy name simultaniously. This would also enable users to communicate P2P. But I don't know how advanced this system is yet.

keewee7 5y ago

>after switching to signal was Live location sharing Which messaging apps have actual Live Location sharing?

Aachen 5y ago
Telegram
- deutschepost 5y ago
  WhatsApp too…
  - fragmede 5y ago
    As do Facebook Messenger and iMessage

waah 5y ago

Don't you get this if you click on the "+" icon? I see options for Camera, GIF, File, etc. then "Location" and I've sent my location this way. Using iPhone.

argiopetech 5y ago
Same on Android.
deutschepost 5y ago
You can just send your current Location. Not have the message update continuously.