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Downsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Let's not forget that for those looking for alternatives, a key feature of signal is/was its SMS integration.

I use silence, a fork of signal.

upside: it can still send and receive SMS messages!
downside: nobody else uses it, so it only does SMS as a result.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

For those who don't remember, not only could signal be used for SMS, it used to be able to do encrypted sms convos.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Also it sadly hasn't been maintained for years