Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
https://community.signalusers.org/t/groups-on-signal-are-not-conducive-for-community-building/46933
Telegram and Whatsapp have topics/communities to organize conversations within a group. As long as Signal doesn't have that, they can't compete.
this was pretty hilarious from a few days ago:
"Mansplaining Audacity": President of Signal Watches in Bemusement as Random Man Explains Her Company's AI Strategy to Her
Use simpleX
Signal Devs. Please add bookmarks option. It would make my life a lot easier. 🙏
Bookmarks? Do you mean bookmarking a spot in a conversation?
Though the search function is surprisingly fast. My wife has gotten into the habbit of adding keywords if she suspects she might want to get to something later.
Yeah exactly. But sometimes you forget to search or forget the right words. The bookmark can be used as a sort of “I’m gonna forget about this, but I wanna look at it again so I’ll bookmark it”.
First, signal doesn't come anywhere close in feature parity.
Second, the CEO (disingenuously) stated they dropped SMS support because of engineering costs - , I don't trust them.
There are free SMS apps, because your app hasn't handled SMS ever, you just use the SMS API. Android itself handles it all - as of about 2012, all apps were required to use a single SMS database.
I thought they removed SMS so as to not give the impression that SMS is at all private or secure