• pfr@lemmy.sdf.org
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          1 hour ago

          There benefit would be exactly what this top comment is about. For all those people in your contacts who don’t use signal, you could still use signal to message them, it would just be an SMS message. It would therefore also become more enticing for people to switch from their stock SMS app to signal, because it would make no difference in terms of who you can send SMS messages to. It would allow for the signal user base to grow, solving the issue of “no one uses signal”

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      2 hours ago

      At least WhatsApp is encrypted and let you have propre group chat

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              1 hour ago

              You still pay for SMS? Wtf, what country do you live in? Most postpaid mobile plans these days only charge for data usage. In which case, your still paying to use WhatsApp.

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                42 minutes ago

                Most countries, like the UK. Get a data only no contract SIM. Internet already does everything. SMS is a scam.

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              45 minutes ago

              I did not say it was secure, I actually spend a lot of time explaining to people that it is secure and they should switch to Signal. However, I will not tell them to go back to SMS for the reason aforementioned.