• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    Whenever it has to fallback to SMS.

    I mean there’s really no other realistic way to enable a single app to utilize two very different communication “protocols” (in quotes, because SMS is only nominally a protocol).

    I’ve always though iMessage was the approach to getting away from crappy SMS.

    So when Signal did the same, I was very optimistic. It removed a barrier to entry for users by supporting SMS plus an encrypted method for connections that had Signal. And you could enable it to add a signature saying something like “Sent from Signal, this could be an encrypted conversation if you download Signal” or something like that. That was a great idea.

    (weird, not sure why these are two comments and it looks like I replied to myself)