Wow, apparently Signal is going to stop supporting SMS soon. That really sucks. That was one of the killer features of Signal.
So for all the people who I convinced to start using Signal because it works as an SMS replacement, sorry. 🙁
@pganssle But what do you still use SMS for? Isn't that included with every phone anyway?
@trinsec I use it for interacting with the people and institutions that don't use Signal, which is most of them...
A huge amount of the value add of Signal was that it is "SMS that gets encrypted when the other person is using it, too."
Now it's a proprietary messaging app where you have to use your phone number as your username, which is, not nearly so attractive.
@pganssle And there I was, thinking I'd maybe switch from the ever-worsening Hangouts to Signal for my SMSness. Oh well.
@pganssle I got my in-laws on to Signal because of that support, but when they got the notification from Signal about the feature being removed they effectively shrugged, asked what app to use for texting, and then have kept using Signal
@pganssle man that sucks, well will have to choose a different open source option. Does anyone know what the default on #grapheneos is?