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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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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Use simpleX
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Irrelevant if nobody else uses it. It's partly because techies can never agree on a single alternative that we're still stuck with WhatsZuck.
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with that attitude yeah, lol. all my people use it. Also never agreeing on anything is not a techie specific quality, that's just humans in general lol
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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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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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SMS? Outside the USA it's used for almost nothing but 2FA codes at this point.
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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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Or just don't use either.
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what's the beef with signal?
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It’s centralized but I consider it the baseline for privacy.
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Not OP, but I don’t like that it has a crypto wallet in it.
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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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U.S. based. Not a great premise.
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I don't see the point in using it. It'll eventually become just like every other app like it.
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Better yet, throw your computer into the sea
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So, like, talk to other people verbally? No thank you.
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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