FarLine99 @ FarLine99 @lemm.ee

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Why switched? Prices? Regional restrictions?)

Kinda low speeds but private and free. Good option!

Such a based answer 😍😘

Reasonable 🙂

But privacy?))

Why? Prices? Convenience? Trust?

Codebase weird complexity due to SMS being very weird, buggy standard. Main reason.

This!

YOU'RE BEING WATCHED! 1! 1! 1! 11!!! GET EVERYONE AROUND YOU TO USE SIGNAL! 1!1!1!1! OR WE'LL ALL DIE! 1! 1! 1! 1! 1! 1! 😏

On stock Android (LineageOS) you can configure it in accessibility settings.

Yup. There are some weird, none reproducible. But usually they are not painful 😄

SimpleX is very good as of now. Hope development direction will be same in the future! There is one inconvenience, finding new people to write. Definetly weird part of experience for non-techy users.

Kinda same experience. Kudos to developer team.

I agree. So I personally really like the way SimpleX is evolving. If the developer develops it further in the same direction, then in a year or two we will have a very good alternative to Signal. But decentralized, without a phone number, without the USA.

I think nicknames may appear in beta in the not too distant future, as there is already a flag to enable this functionality. A phone number will still be required (you can use a VOIP number if you are not satisfied with this requirement). Decentralization? LOL. It's not about Signal by any means. The features are already being implemented slowly enough, and with decentralization we'll never see them at all. You'll have to go to Matrix or SimpleX for that.

Regarding RCS. If they are going to add RCS support, it will be through Google's API with Signal protocol for encryption (as I understand it). But Google hasn't published it yet. That's why RCS is not implemented. The Signal developers, looking from the user side, weren't thrilled with the idea either. For example Greyson, one of the Android app developers, used it for 6 years for SMS. But I think we need more of a good messenger with support for a lot of features more than we need SMS support...

Maybe you should change system wide intensity setting or keyboard setting?

I believe that as painful as this decision was for the user, it was the right one. Supporting such a poorly documented, glitchy protocol makes further development very difficult. And users demand new features and bug fixes yesterday. Besides, I think that SMS will soon retire, and it will be replaced by the "new" RCS standard, which is much more stable and documented. Painful, but necessary to compete for the title of good messenger!

There are some around. But nothing big. Good bug reporting/fixing process is crucial.

SearxNG.