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I have had Signal installed for 6months, I still have 0 contacts because nobody I know uses it and they all use messenger or whatsapp...
Need to befriend more drug dealers.
Not the same guy but this is basically impossible. I was able to get maybe two of the dozens of people I have to contact regularly to use it, then they dropped SMS support and it's been dead ever since for me.
Create fake tinder profiles of hot women, match with thousands of men, and tell them "message me on signal". Dont scam them, that would be rude.
Up to you if you have sex with them or not.
Yes, that's the issue
I personally had a very bad experience with signal and I don't think I'll be using it again. Also now that they cut SMS support I think they only way I'd use it again is if an overwhelming amount of people start using it.
I signed up very early and it was based on an episode of All About Android on TWiT. Messages just weren't going through. Mine out and others in to me. There was an emergency and someone really needed to get ahold of me and I didn't get the message. After that I dropped signal.
If it gets immensely popular I'd definitely consider using it again. Without SMS as a backup it isn't very useful. I converted a few people over to it initially and after that incident we all left. I'm not really interested in playing evangelist again.
I wish we live in an ideal world where we could have a messaging application which is like email. Anyone can run their server and can have whatever messaging client they want. And everything is interoperable.
Tox is the way to go. Or Matrix. Jami works too.