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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They used to allow their client to be used to send unsecured SMS. Then they stopped. Whatever they thought they were doing, they killed the simplest path to onboarding laypeople they had. I kinda gave up on signal after that.

[–] autonomoususer 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly. No one pays for it because it's free

[–] autonomoususer 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Not in most places.