Surprised that happened. Very rare to see that these days.
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Maybe OP works on infosec and the team was like yeah, makes sense?
They only realized that when he said that? What a weird infosec team. I guess they also could use SimpleX if they wanted the most secure, private and anonymous option, but I think Signal is pretty well balanced as a messenger. Good privacy and usability.
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There may have been discussions around it beforehand. I didn't ask why it went so smooth.
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At first from the title it seemed like they changed app to avoid you
yeah, that was funny. Creating a group without OP wasn't enough, they had to change apps lol
That's exactly what I thought as well from reading the headline. It definitely could have been worded better.
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Before Signal made the boneheaded move of removing SMS support, it was so much easier for me to pitch the idea of using Signal to my friends and family, most of which eventually did make the shift from SMS to Signal messages for reasons like ease of use when it came to group chats, sending images/videos, voice clips, etc.
But now? Now it's one of those embarrassing moments where I hear back from people basically all saying "your tech recommendations are usually on point but uh, what happened with Signal???" because the app just abruptly stopped supporting SMS and ruined the seamless appeal. SMS support was the perfect way to ease people into shifting towards Signal messages and now the only damn people I know who still know Signal are my most privacy-minded friends/family, while everyone else has switched back to WhatsApp.
Clearly I'm not bitter...😅 But I mean like, come on. I had the most notorious luddites in my social circle make the switch to Signal and they loved it. The shift from SMS to Signal messages was so smooth so many of them didn't even have that "I miss [SMS stuff]", plus they LOVED that Signal could be used on their laptops in addition to their phones. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh this annoys me so much.
I totally agree. And to make matters worse, one of their arguments was that supporting SMS was taking resources away from developing other features. But what mind blowing features have come out since they dropped SMS? Usernames, I guess, which they were working on anyway. New app icons...
Why did they remove SMS support?
Think it was related to the messages being insecure and signal didn’t want people to be confused.
If your using signal your messages should be secure. SMS messages aren’t secure. It may have been clear to you when Signal send an sms or an encrypted message, but they need to cater to everyone.
That just feels like shooting themselves in the foot. Just inform the user SMS isn't secure. That's it.
Not being willing to trust the user with the information so they can make a choice is asinine. It's the same reason why I stopped using Tuta. Complete privacy and security are great but if there's no option to make things a little more open for the sake of convenience or interconnectivity, I'm just not interested.
Security and privacy shouldn't be a prison.
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What were you using SMS for?
This headline sounds a lot funnier if you assume "it" means Signal, like I did.
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I have a feeling B wanted to use Signal, but expected it to be difficult to make others shift. When OP gave the opportunity, B came in and swyped it right away,
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Still, you were lucky that your colleagues are aware of alternatives and will use it (I hope). I wonder though if people will migrate because of you. Its tough to encourage others to communicate Signal while majority use Messenger or Whatsapp. Their reasoning for that is the most friends and family member are on mainstream solutions.
Signal is an interim solution imo for most people, which I also recommend. Not too extreme, not to "geeky", which introduces them to alternative app world.
If i ever get a job and have to use whatsapp, im using to use all those stupid stickers in every message i send
Pretty much the entire world, except the US and Canada, is WhatsApp based. Every job chat, every message you send, it's all WhatsApp. Heck to pay for parking or to get immigration visa services from the government, it's mostly WhatsApp. And yes you can send stickers.
Sometimes Lemmy loses perspective that the way 300ish million people do something is not that relevant to the other 7500 million.
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I wish my family was that easy to change, and there are only five of us.
In all my years of not using WhatsApp this has never happened to me lol. At best I've gotten some people to message me individually on Signal but not entire groups
these 20 people are awesome :D
Sure and then Santa gave everyone free librebooted thinkpads.
And i can’t even convince my family…
I convinced my family by telling them I won't use anything else. Use Signal or don't talk to me. Win win
They Uno Reversed this on me. “We’re already on Whatsapp, you’re isolating yourself”
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Misread the post title, thought everybody jumped and left you all alone.
Why would a workplace need a group chat? Aren't there any enterprise tools in place to achieve that?
Small companies and startups like to save money
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dream team
Heck yeah! I got a small work group to use Element instead of slack or discord once. I was so proud of them. Kudos for you.
Damn...
You must be really good
People dont install Signal for me, especially feo groups. They use arguments like "yeah, and I also might have reasons not to use Signal like I do with Whatsapp"
Kinda disrespectful to put a line against a data selling app and comparing it to "nah, I just dont wanna"
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Wow, congrats.
For a second I thought you meant you don't use Signal, so they all went there on purpose to avoid you.
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