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[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Nobody is going to use Signal when it lacks so many features. Feels like MSN messenger compared to it's peers.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

what do you mean? i use it a lot and it works great, photos, videos, optional temporary location sharing with friends, and encryption.

what features do you want it to have that it's lacking?

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget, cross-platform!

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

i totally forgot, another great point

[–] trailee@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget voice calls! It has some rough edges there (my audio doesn’t always connect successfully, etc), but when it works the codec sounds better than a standard phone call and there’s no mass surveillance. I use it in place of phone calls for all the people in my network who have it, including my immediate family.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

And video! Group video too!

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

that's a great point, i use the voice calls daily

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I'm guessing they probably want stickers or something

Edit: apparently this is available on signal so I have no fucking idea then

[–] anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

Yeah you can even make your own stickers for free

[–] vinyl@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yea we heavily use it in the army

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

very cool, i had no idea.

free, convenient, reliable encryption.

[–] Live_Let_Live@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My guess is it heavily private and does not have channels

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

does not have channels

except that it does. you can make a public group with a shareable link, and change permissions so that only the admins can post.

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Judging from the comments, it seems like you're wrong.

[–] I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago
[–] Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's not a bad thing. Maybe some of us don't want to be cluttered with a lot of things we don't really care for on using. God forbid we go back to simpler days of communication whereas now we've got things like Discord trying to charge people to pay actual money to have fancy little animations for your profile picture.

Is that what you think is missing? Stupid pointless things that make you feel special because you paid money for it when the true attraction should be focused on how much communicating can be efficient and caring about your privacy and security?

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is that what you think is missing?

No.

The rest of your incoherent essay is now useless.

[–] Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh please, stop trying to cover your own ass. You're embarrassing yourself. Look at the chain of comments. You're trash through and through. Nobody will miss you. All that you seem to live for is just bitch at others and when it happens to you, you cry like a little bitch yourself.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago

You seem like a very stable and rational person.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

you should probably sit down grampa it's getting late.

[–] Frozyre@kbin.melroy.org 0 points 3 months ago

You should probably off yourself, it'd do the world a lot of use. We've got 8 billion people on the planet, don't worry, we'd do so much better without you that you're expendable. You may want to think you're significant and everything but really, you aren't.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I liked msn messanger when it was around.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.one 0 points 2 months ago

It was indeed great.

15 years ago.