Good evening,

I’d like my group of high school friends to use Signal to chat, but one of them uses a push-button phone on a daily basis. Nevertheless, she has a computer at home, and with this computer she previously communicated in the Instagram group. Hence my question: since she has a push-button phone capable of receiving SMS, can she use Signal with the desktop application for PC ? Thanks a lot! :)

    • clemy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      It’s an old phone with buttons (like a Nokia), which is only capable to send/receive SMS, and taking photos… So she can’t obvously install Signal on it. I personnaly use the Signal’s app for Linux on my PC by linking it with my Android phone, and I was wondering if it would be possible for her to create a Signal account by only using a computer. But, it seems to be impossible :/ However, thanks a lot for your answer :)

      • inspxtr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        oh I got what you meant, that sucks :( Maybe try android emulator like the other commenters mentioned.

        it’s awesome that she has those phones btw. I tried looking for one like that but no luck.

        Anw, alternatively maybe y’all can try Matrix? It has E2EE I believe for chat rooms as well. Has multiple different phone + desktop apps. Most straightforward is Element/ElementX.

        Another option also recommended by privacyguides besides signal is SimpleX Chat (never used it). Looks like there’s CLI for desktop if she’s comfortable with it.