Why does #Signal remove popular features from their app and force users to upgrade against their will?
100% of my family members no longer use Signal after they dropped SMS support. They don't want to use multiple apps, so now we're back to SMS/MMS.
Previously Signal would quietly upgrade connections to use the Signal protocol if both people were on Signal, and it'd protect the messages at rest.
Dr. Hax
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2024-08-13 04:01:15
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2024-08-13 04:01:15Event JSON
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