Now Signal announced they’re stopping SMS support for Android, what are your alternatives?

  • Asiaticus@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Yes! Silence! This is what Signal was before all the googleization, works like a charm. The most significant problem is: Where do you find people to change encrypted SM using Silence? I have just ONE fried who is using silence.

    Signal is moving away from the SMS protocol, AFAIK. Is this right?

    • Sr Estegosaurio@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Signal wasn’t using the SMS protocol. They were using the Signal protocol. They’re droping support for using the app as an SMS client. I think than nobody should be using SMSs nowdays so that’s good.

      • Unfunnyryan @lemmy.ml
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        2 years ago

        No one should, but sooooo many Americans are. I don’t have a single person using Silence for E2E messages. Nor did I really have any friends using signal, either. But for myself I was looking for on device encryption and password protected app usage. I wish I had friends using either… But they all have iPhones and use iMessage.