@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agoDownsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?message-square86fedilinkarrow-up190arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up185arrow-down1message-squareDownsides of Signal alternatives compared to Signal?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square86fedilinkfile-text
I’m thinking of the things listed on the Privacy Guides real-time communication section https://www.privacyguides.org/en/real-time-communication/
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•edit-21 year agoLet’s not forget that for those looking for alternatives, a key feature of signal is/was its SMS integration. I use silence, a fork of signal. upside: it can still send and receive SMS messages! downside: nobody else uses it, so it only does SMS as a result.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink11•1 year agoFor those who don’t remember, not only could signal be used for SMS, it used to be able to do encrypted sms convos.
Let’s not forget that for those looking for alternatives, a key feature of signal is/was its SMS integration.
I use silence, a fork of signal.
For those who don’t remember, not only could signal be used for SMS, it used to be able to do encrypted sms convos.
Also it sadly hasn’t been maintained for years