I personally had a very bad experience with signal and I don’t think I’ll be using it again. Also now that they cut SMS support I think they only way I’d use it again is if an overwhelming amount of people start using it.
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netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Signal is the way to go. No need to expose metadata to your mobile carrier via RCS. Also, currently you need Google’s proprietary garbage message app to make use of RCS. There’s litterally no reason to do this.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Why was your experience bad? Did you sign up for it when Elon Musk encouraged people to use it? Back then, so many people signed up that their servers were just overloaded. That’s to be expected with a user growth rate of 400% in one week. I’ve been relying on Signal for all of my communications for a year and a half now and I haven’t ever experienced any issues.
Salamendacious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I signed up very early and it was based on an episode of All About Android on TWiT. Messages just weren’t going through. Mine out and others in to me. There was an emergency and someone really needed to get ahold of me and I didn’t get the message. After that I dropped signal.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh, that’s unfortunate. I understand why you dropped it after that experience. I can only tell you that they have massively improved and the experience is great now.
axe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I wish we live in an ideal world where we could have a messaging application which is like email. Anyone can run their server and can have whatever messaging client they want. And everything is interoperable.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
There’s Matrix and XMPP
uis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Tox is the way to go. Or Matrix. Jami works too.
WereCat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have had Signal installed for 6months, I still have 0 contacts because nobody I know uses it and they all use messenger or whatsapp…
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Need to befriend more drug dealers.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You have to convince people to use Signal.
skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Not the same guy but this is basically impossible. I was able to get maybe two of the dozens of people I have to contact regularly to use it, then they dropped SMS support and it’s been dead ever since for me.
netchami@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That sucks
Agent641@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Create fake tinder profiles of hot women, match with thousands of men, and tell them “message me on signal”. Dont scam them, that wpuld be rude.
Up to you if you have sex with them or not.
WereCat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes, that’s the issue