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Signal
This. Slowly but surely everyone around me has migrated to Signal. It's reliable and avoids all kinds of restrictions while remaining secure and private. Nothing more can be asked of it.
Arguable, the ability it already had of being able to also receive SMS so you wouldn't be stuck using two apps to accommodate the non Signal users of your life.
Yeah most people I know that used signal stopped using it when they took this away.
I use like twelve apps to acommodate the non-Signal users of my life... And Signal is pretty much just a note-to-self app at this point, nobody else uses it.
I mean, they could enable automatic cloud backups (and I do mean enable, the solution is built into the system quite neatly and their automatic backups are already well-encrypted so they're just being ridiculous about security theater instead of letting us have a very important feature). And they could stand to make the cross-device experience (much) better.
but mostly, I wish anybody I knew used it. I'm wondering what kind of circle you're in where everybody started using signal.
I was the first in my entire immediate family, got them all to switch to it. Helps that it's easy to use
I was the first person I know to even hear about it. I've gotten a few people on it, but it's a harder sell now that they don't support SMS. Back when they did, anyone could use it as their main messaging app. Now it can only be used to message other people who have it, and nobody wants to switch to something that they can only use to talk to one person.
Have you ever checked the size of the backups, especially the people who never delete things? How many people are throwing money signals way, and do you think more servers and storage would be free for them? That would probably end Signal being free.
I didn't say they should back up on their servers. I think they should enable Androi'ds built in feature to save a file to a cloud location so I can auto-save backups to my cloud server of choice.