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! :)

  • 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.