An android messaging app that sends everything as an image where the text is in a blue bubble. All images, baby.
oh my god, this (basically culture war) is so hard to witness as a european.
just use signal for god’s sake.
I can’t force my friends to use it. I can’t even get them to install telegram
Having friends that refuse to have anything to do with Telegram is a God’s Send nowadays!
Why is that? They constantly bitch about me not having an iPhone, but they won’t download any app that gives us back rich messaging features. I’ve suggested everything except for Facebook Messenger. I’ve pushed hard for telegram, since I use it with all of my other iPhone friends, but they just complain and refuse to install anything. It’s super annoying.
Signal sucks, a lot. Try using their “privacy first” service with a VPN. You literally need so solve a captcha on every new chat you start.
There is no official FOSS client. You can use Twinhelix’ Signal-FOSS which works great. I recommend using Molly though, which has more needed features like linking multiple mobile devices (for example using an Android Tablet and a phone, with the full version instead of the uncapable Desktop version).
Signal is still based on phone numbers, which is its biggest strength. But it is a centralized Service, nobody runs a Signal server (apart of the country servers from Signal themselves).
Try SimpleX. It is really great and now has like eveything you need. It is completely anonymous, but can also be different. It gives the users a lot of control, which may not be wanted and confuse people.
The culture war is v stupid, yes. But “use signal” is the same as “dont text your friend with a different app at all” with signal dropping sms. They are in a different position that google and apple, so not saying i blame them for dropping, but i did stop using it once it become “another app” instead of how i text.
You should not use SMS for anything. If they actually supported encrypting SMS, it may have had a sense for situationd with no internet.
But SMS is so incredibly insecure and unprivate, that they didnt want to mix it in with their secure messenger.
Having an app also being an SMS app makes no sense as you shouldnt use SMS. But I like Deku SMS which allows encrypting SMS.
