• Kevin@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Signal works. The adoption is fairly slow, but I’ve had friends slowly begin to use it.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Signal since like 2016 and have not seen any appreciable adoption rate whatsoever within my social network.

      I used to actively try to get people to use it but I got enough ambivalent or negative responses that I just stopped asking.

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          1 year ago

          Exactly. And I gave up trying even when it was “easier”. Not to mention, since it can’t do SMS anymore, I actually helped my mom. stop using it, because then she’d need 2 different messaging apps. She and I now use Google Messages to text and whatever Google is calling the integrated video chat app now.

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      1 year ago

      Signal is great. I miss when it worked with SMS. There are 2 E2EE SMS apps that I’m aware of, bit one is not well supported and the other needs quite a bit of UI work before it’s usable by the general public. Also, neither can be used as the default SMS app on Apple phones,but that’s not the app’s fault.