Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp
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Use simpleX
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Signal Devs. Please add bookmarks option. It would make my life a lot easier. 🙏
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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.
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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”.
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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.
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I thought they removed SMS so as to not give the impression that SMS is at all private or secure
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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.
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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
https://futurism.com/president-signal-mansplain-ai