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Did Signal get any momentum though? I used Signal for a week before giving up.

by rr808 5y ago

nameisname 5y ago
Me and all my friends have used signal for years. What do you mean you gave up? I've never had any issues and it beats the hell out of text. Like I said, I communicate with probably 15 people at least daily consistently via IM and 3 of those are text the rest signal.
- neltnerb 5y ago
  My entire family, most of my friends... I hardly ever get a regular SMS, usually it's spam or a company message. Granted I did a little bit of work to convince them, but "you can use it on your computer and do video calls with your phone number" was good enough, even if vaguely inaccurate. It's much more functional than SMS. But that's also in the US, I think other apps are more popular plenty of places which are just as much better than SMS anyway. Signal I think has good adoption in the US because the competitor was so terrible.
rvz 5y ago
No. The momentum fizzled out. [0] > The most common apps chosen as alternatives were Telegram and Signal, mostly because of their privacy and security features. However, almost a third of the participants that tried to switch chose to move to either Facebook Messenger or Instagram. > 25.97% of participants wanted to switch to other apps but only 0.5% uninstalled WhatsApp ... If we translated this result to the entire population of WhatsApp users (approx. 2 billion), we’d be talking about 500 million users trying to flee from WhatsApp, and only 10k uninstalling it. In this researcher's own words: "It looks like WhatsApp is the place to chat with anybody, making it particularly hard to leave." [0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-migration-that-didnt-really-happen-56af637bc5d8 https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...
- diffeomorphism 5y ago
  That seems like entirely separate questions? For instance I switched to signal and use it regularly, but keep whatsapp on my phone for a few contacts I might need a few times per year. Whether it is uninstalled seems like the wrong metric and does not say anything about signal usage.
robjan 5y ago
Most young people in HK primarily use Signal now.

Did Signal get any momentum though? I used Signal for a week before giving up.

by rr808 5y ago

Did Signal get any momentum though? I used Signal for a week before giving up.

Me and all my friends have used signal for years. What do you mean you gave up? I've never had any issues and it beats the hell out of text. Like I said, I communicate with probably 15 people at least daily consistently via IM and 3 of those are text the rest signal.

neltnerb 5y ago
My entire family, most of my friends... I hardly ever get a regular SMS, usually it's spam or a company message. Granted I did a little bit of work to convince them, but "you can use it on your computer and do video calls with your phone number" was good enough, even if vaguely inaccurate. It's much more functional than SMS. But that's also in the US, I think other apps are more popular plenty of places which are just as much better than SMS anyway. Signal I think has good adoption in the US because the competitor was so terrible.

rvz 5y ago

No. The momentum fizzled out. [0] > The most common apps chosen as alternatives were Telegram and Signal, mostly because of their privacy and security features. However, almost a third of the participants that tried to switch chose to move to either Facebook Messenger or Instagram. > 25.97% of participants wanted to switch to other apps but only 0.5% uninstalled WhatsApp ... If we translated this result to the entire population of WhatsApp users (approx. 2 billion), we’d be talking about 500 million users trying to flee from WhatsApp, and only 10k uninstalling it. In this researcher's own words: "It looks like WhatsApp is the place to chat with anybody, making it particularly hard to leave." [0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-migration-that-didnt-really-happen-56af637bc5d8 https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...

diffeomorphism 5y ago
That seems like entirely separate questions? For instance I switched to signal and use it regularly, but keep whatsapp on my phone for a few contacts I might need a few times per year. Whether it is uninstalled seems like the wrong metric and does not say anything about signal usage.

robjan 5y ago

Most young people in HK primarily use Signal now.