• FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    why do you think they have you sign up with a phone number in the first place?

    Again, spam & abuse prevention. We’ve been over this.

    I’m sorry that not everyone thinks Signal is a god app worthy of worship. its a message app, and its not the only one. it does stuff some people don’t like. including me.

    I’m not saying that Signal is a god app worthy of worship, I’m saying it’s detrimental for them to include SMS functionality, since that’s fundamentally insecure. That’s literally why they removed it. Is that so hard to understand?

    • Nima@leminal.space
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      9 hours ago

      nope I fully understand it. completely. and when they removed it, they removed my need for their app. as suddenly I went from being able to message everyone, to being able to message just 2 people.

      it no longer fits my needs. so it isn’t used by me or by both of the people that were leftover after the sms turn off. as they had the same reaction I did.

      so that’s that, I suppose.