This morning, my entire family either switched or said they already had a Signal account. Now we have a family Signal chat.
I expected resistance, not compliance! I’m very happy.
~4 people I know are on Signal. To be fair, most of my family and schoolmates are pretty much Alt right and are into herd mentality.
I have a weird switcheroo situation. My family came across no worries but my friend group, nobody switched.
I deleted all the meta bullshit a while back and went 100% signal, let everyone know where they could reach me and so far 1 person has contacted me via signal (in about 6 months). Feels kind of shit tbh.
Still cant understand why people stay on those platforms full of ads and horrible UI when soooo much better alternatives are out there.
I was getting my family on board and then a week later Signal dropped SMS/MMS support and my family uninstalled Signal. Frustrating.
Maybe I can try again with…everything going on.
rip. That is probably the biggest feature that was taken away and that I miss from any app ever
I was loudly opposed on their repo but ideology won over practicality. I think it severely hampered their adoption rates letting perfect be the enemy of good enough.
I get their reasoning but I think it was quite obvious when I was talking to someone via secure Signal infra vs SMS.
Where the fuck do you live, heaven???
Fucking adopt me
If I even dare suggest this, my family disowns me
My friends and I would love to switch to Signal but every time we try it we just find that the app isn’t very nice to use and a lot of functionality we have come to take for granted is missing. Has it improved recently or is that still the case?
What… What sort of functionality? I struggle to think of something it lacks as a messaging app…
Here’s a list I made last time I tried it. Might not all still be true!
- Signal accounts are tied to a phone number, which is dumb and limiting. You can’t contact someone by username only (or let someone contact you without giving them your phone number), nor can you have multiple phone numbers (I have a work phone and personal phone).
- Signal has no polls or pinned messages.
- No cloud chats comes with a few disadvantages e.g. no global search across all chat history.
- No cloud media storage means you only can keep as much as you can fit on your device, whereas in telegram i can still look at pictures sent to me a decade ago.
- No bot api, which most people probably don’t care about but sucks for me cos I regularly make telegram bots to improve my experience and for fun.
- Signal also has no custom themes but that’s kinda meh.
- Signal has no silent or scheduled messages, and editing/deleting a messages is time-limited (and beta).
- Pretty sure telegram has better emoji reactions and animated gifs etc though not sure.
That’s fantastic, even friends my own age mostly refuse.
