Your communications can’t be compromised if you don’t communicate lol

Supreme privacy. Two can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.

Maybe all your contacts also value their privacy and therefore have not set signal to allow them to be discovered by their phone number

I have a handful of friends and family that did actually switch, but I still have a few stubborn friends on Discord that do t see the point. Just waiting for Discord to fuck up badly enough...

I got all my friends to switch to signal!

I started when it was still called TextSecure, I had precisely 1 contact (just my nerdy friend from uni) for the first 3 years. I then convinced my partner to install it, had 2 contacts for the next few years.

When it became Signal, a few more jumped on. Once I had kids; I bullied my family onto it, by refusing to send photos any other way.

I have 62 contacts now, the bulk of my digital communication is through either Signal, phone, email or Lemmy. There is a little SMS/RCS.

It has been a 15 year journey so far, for me. You will get there.

All the more motivation to encourage your friends to get on signal. I've had a discussion this week with someone, on fedi, who just can't conceive of getting off Meta products, like WhatSapp, because it has so much usage in Europe. Our work isn't done; not yet.

Nothing more private than that.

When I switched to Signal I enforced it hard. Refused to talk to anyone on another platform. If they texted me, I'd responed, but always add "I'd prefer if we discussed this over Signal."

I had more success than I'd anticipated. About 90% of my family and 80% of my friends moved over.

My best piece of advice for this is to start new group chats - people want to be in the group chats, and if they believe Signal is where it's all happening, they'll join.

There's a CLI which is nice. I use it to communicate with my self-hosted personal assistant, while I'm on the go.

At least i got 3 people to install Signal just for me.

I have two contacts. My wife, who I text/communicate with more than anyone else, and a long distance friend.

It took begging and pleading for years to get my wife to agree to it. She finally agreed after it came out that the phone network was likely hacked by China.

I tried to get another friend to use it, at whick point he asked if that was the app at the center of whiskey leaks. He never installed it.

I have a Matrix server hosted with tons of cool plugins, bots, and settings to get it as close to Discord as possible. Can’t get anyone to use it lol. Don’t care. I’ll continue to pay for it for when we truly need it.

I literally got Signal because my sister told me to get on it. That's the only contact I have on Signal.

When the Recent Fascist Takeover happened, an American friend asked me for app opinions - I told him Signal was great, aside of the fact that the desktop app keeps getting updated every femtosecond. ...we're still talking over Discord, sad to say.

Signal keeps suggesting I add a contact for my old boss. (Who was a cool guy, but not cool enough to keep in contact with years afterwards.) Actually, when I had an internship a few years afterwards, the new boss's preferred app was Telegram, so, uh, a red flag? ...Yeah, didn't get that job.

Sounds like it worked

Lemmy memes signal groupchat when?

DM me for invite. You can trust me. I'm Agent641

Add my number so tht you have one contact

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I made a stoat account to escape discord with a few friends and this image is exactly what happened. Majority of people we know aren't inconvenienced enough to move on.

You can contact me on signal. I mean, I probably won't respond. But you can.

As usual with social interactions, it's the network effect.

I saw my mom's Signal today.. Only me 😅

For a while, it was just my one buddy I convinced to use it and I, but then I got hired at a new company and hit it off with the resident cybersec OG! Having Signal ready to rock gave a great first impression :)

I'm actually surprised by how easily I was able to get my whole family and several friends on there, it's my main messaging platform now. The only others are sms and steam chat.

Typical security advice is to turn off "find me by my number" in the Signal security settings. You may well have friends who use Signal, but have turned that setting off. You may consider turning it off yourself. Also, you should turn off "see my number" on the same settings screen.

::Pete Hegseth has entered the chat::

I actually have my main groupchat on signal, but I think that has more to do with having friends that do drugs than anything else.

If only you could also text from the Signal App. I used to have multiple signal contacts, but every single one of them dropped it when they dropped SMS support.

Very private 💪

I had a contact that wouldn't use Signal as he thought it wasn't private enough, and recommended Sessions, but would never respond to any messages.

Ironically, I only went to that because I ditched Facebook and Messenger, which he was fine using. :rolleyes:

I love Session messenger as a decentralised solution, but man it sucks how little people want to change their habits