Group chats work over SMS. I use cloud links for large files or just SMS/MMS for pictures and you just live with the low quality if texting with an iPhone user.
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smeg@feddit.uk 9 months agoSo how do you have group chats or send files with your non-Signal contacts?
nymwit@lemm.ee 9 months ago
smeg@feddit.uk 9 months ago
SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?
apis@beehaw.org 9 months ago
It has never occurred to me to do either of those things, and apparently hasn’t to anyone I’m in contact with either.
Though I don’t use group chats or send files in Signal either, so there’s that.
Jomn@jlai.lu 9 months ago
You don’t x)
More seriously, in these cases, I often rely on emails instead. But I don’t really use group chats a lot (even with my contacts that are on Signal), nor send many files, so it’s not features I really miss.
smeg@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Blimey, you and I have wildly different use cases, I don’t think I’ve sent an email to someone who wasn’t a business for decades!