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I agree with this! But they seem to have backed themselves into a corner where anything pro-business automatically has to be anti-privacy so they dont do it. I
by domh 3y ago
I agree with this! But they seem to have backed themselves into a corner where anything pro-business automatically has to be anti-privacy so they dont do it. I guess there must be some technical challenges to opening up Signal APIs to third parties?
I was against WhatsApp for Business until I had to use it to communicate with Virgin Atlantic. It was so much better than getting on the phone to call them! It probably took longer overall whilst waiting an hour or two between replies, but having a history of the conversation and knowing there's someone reading my request in full and replying properly was great.
I dont know why Signal are wasting their time with cryptocurrency projects, whilst the normal app seems pretty stagnant. I'd love a 3rd party API or bot system that was done in a tasteful and private way, but I dont believe there are any plans for it.
- stavros 3y agoBut you can already do this? I've created various bots, eg a ChatGPT one. There's signald and pysignald and it takes five lines of code to make a bot.
- domh 3y agoNo first class support means I've never dug into it myself. You never know if the thing you build is going to work from one day to the next - how reliable have they been? How do you do the phone number validation step? I'll look into it...
- stavros 3y agoIt's been very reliable for me. I use the method Signal Desktop uses, where you bind signald as a client to your phone, and it's worked great. It does mean you need a phone, but the method where signald is the client directly has worked well too. It needs a phone number, obviously, but you authenticate it once (with an SMS) and that's it.