• LWD@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It used to be way easier back when it was also a texting app. That was my “in” to recommending it to people. It’s a much harder sell to get them to use it because I’m on it, especially now that Google Messenger is baked into every Android phone and also provides a sort of desktop experience.

    For the sake of argument, let’s say Signal is already perfect… Now the trouble is that people aren’t using it.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. And I gave up trying even when it was “easier”. Not to mention, since it can’t do SMS anymore, I actually helped my mom. stop using it, because then she’d need 2 different messaging apps. She and I now use Google Messages to text and whatever Google is calling the integrated video chat app now.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, a new messaging app is definitely a hard sell for me if it’s data/wifi only. I have Discord for unimportant internet conversations that can wait for me to burn data and texting for important things like work because I get unlimited texts. Having a separate app for a couple of people would be annoying.