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Signal usage survey, what versions do you use? Wanted for potential Flatpak adoption (community.signalusers.org)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current "Linux = Ubuntu" .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You do realise that mobile data is non-existent or limited in some counties right? Even here in New Zealand mobile data is still limited or expensive and the main communication, especially between people who don't know each other, is SMS. Some encryption is still better than nothing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Crazy. But Signal never encrypted SMS.

And even if they did, this would be worse than signal protocol and really confusing, because SMS only worked between signal and an sms app, encrypted sms would only work between signal and signal too.

So you would have the same encryption over 2 protocols and people may just stay with sms all the time which is baaad.

So seperate apps, I dont get peoples problems.

I recommend DekuSMS for encrypted SMS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's why Silence was forked from Signal.

You don't get people's problems because I'm going to hazard a guess that it's not a problem for you and therefore you don't actually have any lived experience with the issue. Or not currently anyway. But given you don't seem to be too interested in peoples actual experiences and seem more interested in talking over people and insisting that your eristic arguments are the only right answer, I'm going to leave this conversation here and continue to have a hard time converting family and friends to Signal because they still use SMS and Signal doesn't give a shit about people in countries where SMS dominates.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

My comment was not personal or anything, so I ask you to also please stay rational.

I also complained about Signal not supporting encrypted SMS, but again, Whatsapp never supported SMS and still is used like all over the world.

Signal doesnt have to be better than Whatsapp to deserve adoption. It already is, and everyone should just replace it.

I was clear about that, and threw Whatscrap off my device, spent hours convincing people to switch, and at least in my bubble that worked pretty okay as they are left-y and even though often tech illiterate accept that Signal is like a baseline of Security and simply not hard to use or anything.

A statement: if you use SMS to avoid whatsapp, maybe you should prefer to use Whatsapp. I dont and in rare cases I use whatsapp, but literally nobody gets how insecure SMS is. I immediately ask them to install an encrypted SMS app and nobody does, which kinda sucks.

I am in a lucky position to not rely on SMS. I dont get the "as little apps as possible" mentality of people that at the same time have like all the tracking apps on their devices.

I just have understanding for Signal to have dropped SMS. It is misleading to have it in the same App, nobody gets shit.

In the current situation I will convince people that already have Whatscrap to also install Signal. Like nobody deletes whatsapp, which takes away lots of the arguments for using Signal (meta is still getting all the "who knows whom").

I understand that it sucks for you. And supporting SMS really is no big efford. But I also understand Signals position.

FOSS doesnt always need to be better than proprietary tracking garbage. People need to be f**ing educated to intrinsically use anything that is more privacy friendly.

Btw Silence is no longer maintained so I recommend DekuSMS.