My whole family (excluding my extended family) uses Signal to talk with me, haha.
Me and one other tech friend who appeased me. We tried simplex first, but sometimes their background service would be off and they wouldnt get messages. So we switch to Molly.
Almost zero. We are all in the Matrix. It’s especially necessary when you are refugees by 🇷🇺, but personally me started to use matrix a very long time ago.
I usually use matrix too though haven’t used it with irl friends 💪
Only a small handful of people in my circle are willing to use it. Most can’t be bothered to change despite my efforts to explain how much better it is to use. I’ve waned in my usage of unencrypted chat so that is isolating me from some which saddens me a bit. I can handle that, but I am far more disappointed in people’s indifference in the matter.
I don’t find it “better” in any way other than privacy.
From a user standpoint, the UI is just SMS, that is it’s not good.
Plus I no longer trust them after the lie that they dropped SMS because if “engineering costs”. There are free SMS apps, because the app has fuck all to do with SMS - your app merely registers as the SMS app, and uses the native API calls for the SMS database.
From a user standpoint, the UI is just SMS, that is it’s not good.
SMS don’t support group chats, do they?
I think you misunderstand the purpose of Signal. It’s for encrypted communication. SMS can be encrypted but it can be a real hassle and security risk if messages are sent over 2 different channels and start arriving out of order or not at all. Sending media over SMS is also a problem as now that introduces another problem: MMS is over data, not SMS. If you don’t have data but do have SMS, a message in the chain isn’t delivered which means key renegotiation.
They dropped SMS for very good reasons. It’s not because “they are lazy” or and they had “fuck all to do”. If it really were that easy, it would’ve been done.
All but two of them.
Myself, my wife, her parents, and my parents all use it, though honestly the latter are there for grandkid pictures and I’m confident 100% of their conversations with anyone else are sms/facebook/etc.
As far as I’m aware: Zero.
A bunch. I simply do not communicate without private messengers. If somebody asked me to use Matrix / Element, that’d be fine too.
People who don’t care enough to use a private messenger are implying that they don’t care about my and our privacy. It’s quite simple for me not to want to talk to them 🤷♂️
My mother tried it once
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Just me. I’m holding out I’ll meet someone else who has it installed someday.
I had a friend the other day telling me that his mother made the whole family group switch from Whatsapp to Signal following Meta supporting Trump. Unexpected, but good to see.
Lol, funny the things that make people jump.
Glad to see it, but clearly privacy wasn’t the reason, which is weird to me.
Most of the people I want to receive messages from use Signal. But to be fair (to be faaaiiiir), that number isn’t that large.
only one, online friend 👀
this is the type of question i would only answer on signal
most! i have one straggler on telegram
The entire family on both sides now! We still use FaceTime for video sometimes as it is also E2EE and seems to be much less often blurry than signal video.
