• The Doctor@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Pretty normal reaction after the announcement that Signal got rid of SMS support. A bunch of folks I used to talk to read that and ditched Signal entirely for FB Chat.

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      1 year ago

      They had a good blog post about why - their take was that SMS is dying and the replacement was a moving target that was hard to support for reasons I’m forgetting. I agree it hurt them tremendously though.

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        1 year ago

        I get that. That is specifically the reason they uninstalled Signal and started using FB.

        How many other folks did that?

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          1 year ago

          Probably a lot. I was very annoyed myself, though it made android pretty similar to the situation on iOS where you can’t replace the default messaging app anyway.

          It’s an area where I think we need a bunch of stuff:

          1. Antitrust regulation to force companies to use open standards and allow customization
          2. Folks like the Signal Foundation should get over themselves and run their project like a real open source project, where others can fork/modify/run both the server side and client side.

          There’s so much anti-competitive bullshit regarding #1 from all sides, from carriers to Apple to Google to device manufacturers.

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        1 year ago

        Clearly enough people for this to be a point, a big majority of people in the US still do at least in the places I’ve stayed in.

        There’s nothing inherently wrong with SMS.

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          1 year ago

          They are an ancient technology, it was needed before we had phones connected to internet, but now they are a relic. And have been for at least a decade.

          They are good at giving us fun by making americans fight each other about the color of their bubbles.

          And no, RCS is not the solution.