• darcy
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    6311 months ago

    signal is the perfect messaging app for normies

    • dinckel
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      2311 months ago

      I would generally agree with you, if it could allow you to sign-in on multiple devices, and share message history. I understand why it doesn’t do either one, but it does cripple the experience

      • ϚìɾƑąղçվքąղէʂ
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        511 months ago

        Technically, you can sign in on multiple devices and share history. I share between my phone and multiple desktops. You just can’t do it between two mobile devices.

        • /home/pineapplelover
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          211 months ago

          Yeah you can. I have it synced on desktop, phone, laptop. The kicker is that it will only have messages starting from when you synced and log in. If I added a new device, it would not see messages from yesterday, however it will start syncing from all devices from that point on.

    • @woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      611 months ago

      signal is the perfect messaging app for normies

      But Signal doesn’t let me restrict receiving voice messages either. I only found options regarding calls, not voice messages.

    • @gelberhut@lemdro.id
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      111 months ago

      No. History is not synced between devices. Did not use it on windows? - deliniced and after relink you have no history again. It annoys with entering a password. Migration to a new phone backup to s file, somehow copy the file to a new phone, restore - not for normied.

      signal has same e2e encryption as WhatsApp and requires your phone number: same level of privacy,much worse user experience, much less features. Not a great option for normies.

      • darcy
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        511 months ago

        its a sacrifice one must make. also whatsapp is closed source so e2e is as good as nothing