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The problem with signal is its a ghost land. Many people signed up after the new WhatsApp T&S debacle, but Facebook played it like a boss by delaying the chang
by jacooper 4y ago
The problem with signal is its a ghost land.
Many people signed up after the new WhatsApp T&S debacle, but Facebook played it like a boss by delaying the change and draining the news cycle and they won.
Almost no body uses signal, I have chat group of my friends on signal, and I'm really thinking of moving it to WhatsApp, so they actually see the messages instead of it being 20 messages from me and 1 from the others.
Its not that they don't have signal installed, they just never open it, I use it as a video/voice call app and it works well, but messages? Its a PITA to get people to actually read them, especially since many of them are complaining of notifications not working.
I like the stories feature, especially because its totally encrypted, but its basically useless as almost no one in my social circle uses Signal.
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- rchaud 4y agoI was still using Signal for SMS, and they announced they'd be removing that. So it's gone from my phone. Everybody wants to be Telegram it seems.
- jacooper 4y agoI don't understand what Signal had to do SMS. its mainly a Secure messaging app not an SMS client And Telegram is the worst in terms of security and privacy.
- aendruk 4y agoIt was analogous to the “Messages” app that iPhones have—a single, zero-decision place to go for texting, that opportunistically upgrades privacy without the user having to understand anything.
- int_19h 4y agoCasual users don't understand (and don't want to understand) the difference between SMS and other messaging services. And it makes sense - it's all a kind of chat, so why would they expect two different apps with the same core functionality?
- g_sch 4y agoSpeak for yourself. At least 80% of my messages run over Signal these days. And I communicate with a wide variety of people, not just techies. I think a major contributor to this was that Signal got normalized early as the venue for a large group chat started by some friends who moved to my neighborhood years ago. Over time this chat became a sort of neighborhood forum where people advertised open rooms, traded goods and services, and exchanged news and gossip. And because it was on Signal, everyone installed Signal. I know I'm in somewhat of a strange bubble, but I just want to underscore that this kind of world is possible. The adoption fight hasn't been lost yet, especially since some cracks are starting to show in the incumbents' moats these days.