My comment was not personal or anything, so I ask you to also please stay rational.

I also complained about Signal not supporting encrypted SMS, but again, Whatsapp never supported SMS and still is used like all over the world.

Signal doesnt have to be better than Whatsapp to deserve adoption. It already is, and everyone should just replace it.

I was clear about that, and threw Whatscrap off my device, spent hours convincing people to switch, and at least in my bubble that worked pretty okay as they are left-y and even though often tech illiterate accept that Signal is like a baseline of Security and simply not hard to use or anything.

A statement: if you use SMS to avoid whatsapp, maybe you should prefer to use Whatsapp. I dont and in rare cases I use whatsapp, but literally nobody gets how insecure SMS is. I immediately ask them to install an encrypted SMS app and nobody does, which kinda sucks.

I am in a lucky position to not rely on SMS. I dont get the "as little apps as possible" mentality of people that at the same time have like all the tracking apps on their devices.

I just have understanding for Signal to have dropped SMS. It is misleading to have it in the same App, nobody gets shit.

In the current situation I will convince people that already have Whatscrap to also install Signal. Like nobody deletes whatsapp, which takes away lots of the arguments for using Signal (meta is still getting all the "who knows whom").

I understand that it sucks for you. And supporting SMS really is no big efford. But I also understand Signals position.

FOSS doesnt always need to be better than proprietary tracking garbage. People need to be f**ing educated to intrinsically use anything that is more privacy friendly.

Btw Silence is no longer maintained so I recommend DekuSMS.