Everyone I’m close with uses Signal. Family, friends and even some coworkers.
not barely enough
this is the type of question i would only answer on signal
not much. most of them are still using telegram believing durov is a good guy
In theory everyone around me does. I have refused to use whatsapp and fb messenger and the like for around 10 years now. As a result I don’t have contact with the majority of people I used to call friends as they refused to use anything else.
Consequently my immediate family use it and a few friends that actually cared to stay in touch do.
I have a couple of hold outs who I have contact with but pretty much everyone I’m in regular contact are on signal now.
12 family members, 3 friends.
My whole family (excluding my extended family) uses Signal to talk with me, haha.
As far as I’m aware: Zero.
None, they barely had the energy to switch to Telegram while staying on WhatsApp when it became popular a few years ago. Nobody wants to take it seriously because they “have nothing to hide”.
Almost zero. We are all in the Matrix. It’s especially necessary when you are refugees by 🇷🇺, but personally me started to use matrix a very long time ago.
I usually use matrix too though haven’t used it with irl friends 💪
All but two of them.
Only a small handful of people in my circle are willing to use it. Most can’t be bothered to change despite my efforts to explain how much better it is to use. I’ve waned in my usage of unencrypted chat so that is isolating me from some which saddens me a bit. I can handle that, but I am far more disappointed in people’s indifference in the matter.
I don’t find it “better” in any way other than privacy.
From a user standpoint, the UI is just SMS, that is it’s not good.
Plus I no longer trust them after the lie that they dropped SMS because if “engineering costs”. There are free SMS apps, because the app has fuck all to do with SMS - your app merely registers as the SMS app, and uses the native API calls for the SMS database.
From a user standpoint, the UI is just SMS, that is it’s not good.
SMS don’t support group chats, do they?
I think you misunderstand the purpose of Signal. It’s for encrypted communication. SMS can be encrypted but it can be a real hassle and security risk if messages are sent over 2 different channels and start arriving out of order or not at all. Sending media over SMS is also a problem as now that introduces another problem: MMS is over data, not SMS. If you don’t have data but do have SMS, a message in the chain isn’t delivered which means key renegotiation.
They dropped SMS for very good reasons. It’s not because “they are lazy” or and they had “fuck all to do”. If it really were that easy, it would’ve been done.
I got my parents and a few friends. I take longer to answer anywhere else.
We are a matrix family, mind you.
Most of the people I want to receive messages from use Signal. But to be fair (to be faaaiiiir), that number isn’t that large.
