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Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive (signal.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Removing SMS support makes sense. The potential for a user sending something through SMS that they thought was going over Signal is high. Even for the savvier users who would install Signal in the first place.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    It killed adoption, since now it's just another messaging app. Most of my contacts still use SMS, and will stay on it, so being able to use Signal was a smooth all-in-one experience. Now I have no point in keeping it installed because like 3 of my contacts use it, so it has no use to me, thus killing potential adoption.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    They've never had more users.

    And if you had spent 3 minutes looking at r/Signal or the support forum before they disabled SMS you would have seen how many people were confused by the feature.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Exactly the opposite. Removing sms was the thing that finally made me recommend it to my friends and family. People understand sms replacements. People understand alternate messaging apps. People don't understand encrypted sms.

    If you have people who love whatsapp, it's super easy to get them to use signal instead.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Perfect, that keeps you off signal and lowers their operating costs.

    Because if you actually needed signal, you’d still be using it. Security and privacy is not about convenience or a “smooth all-in-one experience”. It’s about actual security and privacy. And that is what signal provides.

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