I was under the impression that Signal could handle SMS and RCS and be a replacement for a phones messaging app. Am I misguided or is Signal more of an WhatsApp alternative that I can only communicate with people already on Signal
The latter is true unfortunately. Because of understandable security reasons they gave up the SMS integration about a year ago since it’s unencrypted and not a good fit to the security standards of signal.
Until there is some form of open interconnection between messaging apps there will be no end to WhatsApp.
Don’t get me wrong, signal is a great alternative, but it does not achieve more then it’s core value of security, and this will never be enough.
I’d just be happy if there was a way to restore my messages from Android to iOS (or vice-versa). I’m going to lose my messages from the past 4 years because of this. And it’s been an open request with the devs for 5 years now.
Plus this refusal to allowing Chats to Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger now that EU forced meta to open this up…
I know the devs are not happy about meta tracking everything on their end but why can’t this be a users choice to enable communication with no-signal servers as well?
That law is for chat apps that have a user base over like 40M. Is Signal even that large yet?
No and that’s why signal can decide on their own if they want to enable chat with other messager or not. Meta has no choice anymore.
Matrix shows me that you can have both secure and decentralized communication.