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How many people around you (family, friends, colleagues, etc.) use Signal? (piefed.zip)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/privacy@programming.dev
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[–] -1 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

I don't find it "better" in any way other than privacy.

From a user standpoint, the UI is just SMS, that is it's not good.

Plus I no longer trust them after the lie that they dropped SMS because if "engineering costs". There are free SMS apps, because the app has fuck all to do with SMS - your app merely registers as the SMS app, and uses the native API calls for the SMS database.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    I think you misunderstand the purpose of Signal. It's for encrypted communication. SMS can be encrypted but it can be a real hassle and security risk if messages are sent over 2 different channels and start arriving out of order or not at all. Sending media over SMS is also a problem as now that introduces another problem: MMS is over data, not SMS. If you don't have data but do have SMS, a message in the chain isn't delivered which means key renegotiation.

    They dropped SMS for very good reasons. It's not because "they are lazy" or and they had "fuck all to do". If it really were that easy, it would've been done.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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