MagneticFusionAug 30, 2023

Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z.

https://lemm.ee/post/5969338

Meeting new roommates for college and I suggested Signal and this was someone's response. I hate Gen Z. - lemm.ee

Show threadThe Doctor
Pretty normal reaction after the announcement that Signal got rid of SMS support. A bunch of folks I used to talk to read that and ditched Signal entirely for FB Chat.
Aug 31, 2023 at 5:14pmWeb
Show threadnull_recurrentSep 1, 2023
They had a good blog post about why - their take was that SMS is dying and the replacement was a moving target that was hard to support for reasons I’m forgetting. I agree it hurt them tremendously though.
Show threadThe DoctorSep 1, 2023

I get that. That is specifically the reason they uninstalled Signal and started using FB.

How many other folks did that?

Show threadnull_recurrentSep 1, 2023

Probably a lot. I was very annoyed myself, though it made android pretty similar to the situation on iOS where you can’t replace the default messaging app anyway.

It’s an area where I think we need a bunch of stuff:

  • Antitrust regulation to force companies to use open standards and allow customization
  • Folks like the Signal Foundation should get over themselves and run their project like a real open source project, where others can fork/modify/run both the server side and client side.

    • There’s so much anti-competitive bullshit regarding #1 from all sides, from carriers to Apple to Google to device manufacturers.