Alot of my friends use Snapchat for messaging but it’s really annoying needing to laggily enable the camera every time the app opens. Anyone know a way to make it think it has the camera on but not actually or something? (if you just revoke the camera permission it stops you from using the app entirely)

    • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldM
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      Signal also did something that angered its userbase by removing SMS support, so now it’s harder than ever to try to convert people to Signal.

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        Can’t you just use your normal SMS app?

        Do you understand the reasoning for the removal?

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          Yes, but it’s easier to sell Signal to tech illiterate family members if I tell them “It’s a new text app that lets you talk with people with both Android and Iphone” instead of having them groan “Oh no it’s another messaging app I have to install”.

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        Several of my family members quit Signal after they got rid of SMS, I understand the logic behind the change but now I only have a couple of people that still use it.

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        I saw that, really unfortunate too. And now with the creator leaving signal entirely I don’t see it getting better on that front.

        There are a handful of other options out there, but good luck getting more than a small percentage of your contacts to switch to it.