Signal on Desktop survey?
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On this forum there is open discussion about Taking ownership of Signal Flatpak, but in my humble opinion, we need to have some measurements, before we can be taken more seriously by Signal desktop team. Can you please answer to bellow questions. Thank you. Which Signal on phone are you using: poll Which Signal on desktop are you using: poll Which method of installation are you using on Signal on desktop? poll If you are using Singal on Linux, on which Linux distribution you are using S...

There are big wishes for Signal to adopt the perfectly working Flatpak.

This will make Signal show up in the verified subsection of Flathub, it will improve trust, allow a central place for bug reports and support and ease maintenance.

Flatpak works on pretty much all Distros, including the ones covered by their current “Linux = Ubuntu” .deb repo.

To make a good decision, we need to have some statistics about who uses which package.

  • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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    9 months ago

    So your family used SMS? Sms is horrible, you should just not use it.

    If signal supported encrypted SMS that would be useful. DekuSMS is the only alternative here, as Silence is abandoned.

    But it makes sense that they dont want to pretend SMS was a good standard.

    Meanwhile, they use a phone number for anything, ironic

    • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
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      9 months ago

      You do realise that mobile data is non-existent or limited in some counties right? Even here in New Zealand mobile data is still limited or expensive and the main communication, especially between people who don’t know each other, is SMS. Some encryption is still better than nothing.

      • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
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        9 months ago

        Crazy. But Signal never encrypted SMS.

        And even if they did, this would be worse than signal protocol and really confusing, because SMS only worked between signal and an sms app, encrypted sms would only work between signal and signal too.

        So you would have the same encryption over 2 protocols and people may just stay with sms all the time which is baaad.

        So seperate apps, I dont get peoples problems.

        I recommend DekuSMS for encrypted SMS.

        • Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
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          9 months ago

          That’s why Silence was forked from Signal.

          You don’t get people’s problems because I’m going to hazard a guess that it’s not a problem for you and therefore you don’t actually have any lived experience with the issue. Or not currently anyway. But given you don’t seem to be too interested in peoples actual experiences and seem more interested in talking over people and insisting that your eristic arguments are the only right answer, I’m going to leave this conversation here and continue to have a hard time converting family and friends to Signal because they still use SMS and Signal doesn’t give a shit about people in countries where SMS dominates.