Trust me, I push Signal hard and even donate to it monthly. As I'm sure many of you know, there are always a few contacts who unfortunately refuse to use it.

In this case: do you prefer to use insecure SMS in something like QUIK SMS or Fossify Messages, or do you prefer to bite the Google bullet to get end-to-end encrypted messages (even if the metadata isn't encrypted)?

I can see good arguments for both sides, so I am curious what Lemmy's take is.

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago

SMS for uninteresting plain texts to a phone.

RCS for sending a picture over 1mb to a phone.

Email for common everything else.

Matrix\Element or other measaging clients for the uncommon everything else.

A second phone number or virtual SMS client like Google Voice for sensitive SMS 2FA.

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