The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy and skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?
I was sad when signal changed to not include basic sms to non signal users. I don’t like having separate messengers for things like that. But it makes sense in the grand scheme. If I could get the few people I message the most to convert over I’d be happy.
How? Signal doesn’t have the leverage to get the bulk of users to stop using SMS. So all that move did was to force people to reinstall an SMS. Then, signal became yet another messaging app for like one contact to manage and forget about.
Matrix does what signal does, but it’s distributed, unlike Signal. Plus you have protocol portability.
I was sad when signal changed to not include basic sms to non signal users. I don’t like having separate messengers for things like that. But it makes sense in the grand scheme. If I could get the few people I message the most to convert over I’d be happy.
How? Signal doesn’t have the leverage to get the bulk of users to stop using SMS. So all that move did was to force people to reinstall an SMS. Then, signal became yet another messaging app for like one contact to manage and forget about.
Matrix does what signal does, but it’s distributed, unlike Signal. Plus you have protocol portability.