I am working on this with mine, but even Signal is too weaksauce in my book. Ownerless (and ideally decentralized) p2p chat is what I am after. If everyone in my group used Android then it'd be Briar or Cwtch hands down for primary text/picture msg and SimpleX or Session or Jami as voice/video call and backup. Because there's an iphone upsetting everything that scratches Briar and Cwtch, so it's SimpleX reinforced with Orbot on my group's menu currently and it seems to work reliably. Session has terrible notification delays when in the background, they use the [IMO] boneheaded send-on-select abstraction within the selection gallery when attaching an image on their Android app (oh and your unsent typed text is wiped). Very unprofessional, needs a bottom-up redesign for its interface. Really has that everyone quit feel to it.
Unironically yes. I'm in a bunch of different group chats with little overlap in signal. There was a huge push amongst my friend group to get people on it back in like 2015. I have some family not on it but we just talk in person.
Not everyone switched, but a surprising amount did, and only more have switched over time.
Aside from a couple non-US friends, I know no one in the US who uses anything other than straight SMS (and Apple iMessage). I'm sure they exist but certainly not in the circle of people I communicate with.
rustcleaner|1 year ago
jacobwilliamroy|1 year ago
I'm genuinely curious: what was the pitch that you used to get others to start using signal?
hughesjj|1 year ago
Not everyone switched, but a surprising amount did, and only more have switched over time.
llm_trw|1 year ago
ghaff|1 year ago
jacobwilliamroy|1 year ago
I'm genuinely curious: what was the pitch that you used to get others to start using signal?
postexitus|1 year ago