“When you use Signal, your data is stored in encrypted form on your devices. The only information that is stored on the Signal servers for each account is the phone number you registered with, the date and time you joined the service, and the date you last logged on.”
This isn’t an ad, I wasn’t paid for this post. Just to clear the air: fuck facebook, fuck elon musk and twitter, fuck anyone who thinks this is a paid advertisement. I wish I was paid for this shit, I just wanted to spread the word. Thank you. 😀 👍
I pretty much dropped Signal after they announced they were losing SMS support. It’s hard enough to sell my peers on another messaging app as it is, and Signal’s UI choices have been frustrating from the get go.
For what it’s worth, Google has picked up the same or better end-to-end encryption as Signal for users of its default messenger but will likely never do away with SMS support.
https://9to5google.com/2023/03/24/messaging-is-not-androids-mess-iphone-problem-with-lockheimer/
I just absolutely do not trust google.
That said I convinced a member of my family to join signal and we text on there for a bit and then the connection broke. Like we could not text anymore nothing would go from me to them it would just stay in limbo as sent.