You should begin using it. Introduce a few friends as well and go from there. Took me about a year but now basically every contact I regularly talk to is using it. You may be surprised to find some of your contacts already there.
Yeah that's something to get used to at first but that's also the whole point at the same time. Your messages are on your main device only and relayed to your accessory devices.
That was the biggest reason most of my circle switched too. My close group of friends and I are all techy so we switched for both reasons but my family switched because the experience was just far superior to SMS long before RCS came to iOS.
The only holdouts are my sister and BIL because they're just annoying lol.
Adding external repositories, not vetted, not reproducible builds… signal is for security conscious people and yet asks users to forget about security to install it :D
They're saying there isn't a single installer that is available via the various linux "app stores" or default repositories. So the fact that you have to add a repository to get it, you don't have control over where it comes from.
But why don't you stop and reflect on the WHY they don't want to be on f-droid or any linux distribution? For an open source app that's sus to say the least.
(because it's the silicon valley open source where there's a company behind leaking money and trying to figure out how to monetize at some point, so they want to have full control)
F-droid isn't possible because Signal uses Google Play Services for notifications, that violates the f-droid guidelines.
Have you looked at the procedure for getting a new package into Debian? It's not trivial especially for an app built like Signal, and it makes updates far more complicated.
Signal is made by a non-profit with plenty of funding, they don't need control to monetize it at this point.
F-droid isn't possible because Signal uses Google Play Services for notifications, that violates the f-droid guidelines.
This is really self commenting.
Have you looked at the procedure for getting a new package into Debian? It's not trivial especially for an app built like Signal, and it makes updates far more complicated.
Yes I have :) But signal violates like every single paragraph of policy and they are not interested in fixing it.
Also chatgpt is made by a non-profit, and see how that worked out :D
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u/GoofyGills Feb 17 '25
Cross-platform (Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, Linux) encrypted messaging app.
You should begin using it. Introduce a few friends as well and go from there. Took me about a year but now basically every contact I regularly talk to is using it. You may be surprised to find some of your contacts already there.
https://signal.org/install