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This is the boat I'm in. My version of Signal already updated and encouraged me to switch SMS out of the app, which I did. Now I'm sort of split between these two apps; my family is, for the moment, still using Signal for both, but I expect they'll soon enough be forced to use Android Messages, at which point we'll have little reason to continue using Signal.

Once my immediate family is out, I expect it'll be a domino effect with my extended family and friends -- those of us on Signal will have fewer and fewer reasons (ie, individuals in our graph) to use it. As much as I'd like this to not be the case, I think it will be. A smallish percentage of my contact list was on Signal, but every few months, another few people would join. I expect this trend will reverse.




They stop using it because they can’t sms? Why is that… no connection to wifi?


the US is, to put it mildly, weird

my guess is that carriers/telcos offer unlimited SMS because they can data mine and monetize the shit out of it

also most people are still somewhere at the level of "the Internet is Google Chrome"




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