Very private 💪
Empty bar problem.
Nothing more private than that.
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.
Which means they actually didn’t use signal at all.
They used SMS and are still continuing using SMS.
Yes, but their communications with me and each other were secure, which is a lot better than they’re doing now.
Did using signal with the old SMS feature privided any additional level of privacy or security? Means, no matter what all the SMS are unencrypted and goes through ISP right?
Not if you were using SMS, but it automatically upgraded connections to secure chats if both people had signal.
The point was to have all your messaging needs in one package.
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’ve got ~140 contacts on signal
i don’t know all of them, probably like 50 are from groups i am part of
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.
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.
I got all my friends to switch to signal!
I’m still working on that, but progress is happening
I just don’t have any friends
If you want to sell private communication tools, just tell people that the creepy ads they see when talking about certain topics will stop appearing.
Then they ask me back, “What’s the point of stopping one threat when thousands of ways exist to track them?”
From my personal research, I found that their messaging tool of choice is not only linked to privacy and security but also some features like status, stories, and the app design. Primarily the popularity and slop.
Look em dead in the eye, say: well if you dont mind the invasive ads, who am I to judge?
::Pete Hegseth has entered the chat::
And made it public
Matrix with bridges has been good for me. Keep all normies and slowly over time convert
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.
Add my number so tht you have one contact
Which country number is this? 😂
The country that will never give you up
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.
What if I’m in my 50s and i don’t have half that number of contacts anywhere. Will I still get there.
And if those 30ish contacts find me on signal, where am I supposed to go and hide next.
I’m sure some genius has made a texting protocol that requires installing Linux and can only be utilized by console with sudo access.
You can finally get some peace and quiet.
Except from fucking Phil. That guy is the worst.
I’ve 36 contacts. I started 3 years ago. In a country where people stare at me for solid 3-5 seconds before they utter a word when I tell them I don’t ise whatsapp. Love it.
We’ll get there.
OG here too. I remember when they first supported voice calls. It was a separate app called redphone.
