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@pganssle the default Messages app that comes with Google Play is where 1990s era texts belong.
@gpshead I don’t really understand this. It sounds like you are saying that I should disdain SMS so much that I don’t care about my client, but it’s not like I can stop using SMS.
I’m almost certainly going to need to start using SMS more now, because a good chunk of the people I talk to on Signal are people where I went to send them a text message through Signal and I got a “blue send button”. Now I’m just going to go straight for the SMS app, and all those communications will be unencrypted.
@pganssle if you're willing to be the pedant pariah in your social group, install an auto-responder app: for non 2FA code SMS messages, set it to auto-reply to the sender with a messaging instructing them to install and use Signal - containing a link to it in both platform's app stores. And proceed to ignore and delete all texts.
Most people don't feel like offending their contacts this way as that isn't the way their social power dynamic works.
@gpshead Well I’m not that interested in boosting Signal anymore anyway. The main selling point is gone and and non-technical types I have convinced to use Signal now have to deal with two apps plus a migration of their SMS history.
This plus the general vendor lock-in model Signal has going don’t make me enthusiastic to spend what limited influence I have over my contacts’ technical choices on promoting Signal.
