Nothing more private than that.

Very private 💪

I made a stoat account to escape discord with a few friends and this image is exactly what happened. Majority of people we know aren't inconvenienced enough to move on.

I got all my friends to switch to signal!

So what? That’s peak privacy.

If only you could also text from the Signal App. I used to have multiple signal contacts, but every single one of them dropped it when they dropped SMS support.

Your communications can’t be compromised if you don’t communicate lol

I had a contact that wouldn't use Signal as he thought it wasn't private enough, and recommended Sessions, but would never respond to any messages.

Ironically, I only went to that because I ditched Facebook and Messenger, which he was fine using. :rolleyes:

Privacy by design.

I started when it was still called TextSecure, I had precisely 1 contact (just my nerdy friend from uni) for the first 3 years. I then convinced my partner to install it, had 2 contacts for the next few years.

When it became Signal, a few more jumped on. Once I had kids; I bullied my family onto it, by refusing to send photos any other way.

I have 62 contacts now, the bulk of my digital communication is through either Signal, phone, email or Lemmy. There is a little SMS/RCS.

It has been a 15 year journey so far, for me. You will get there.

Empty bar problem.

I literally got Signal because my sister told me to get on it. That's the only contact I have on Signal.

When the Recent Fascist Takeover happened, an American friend asked me for app opinions - I told him Signal was great, aside of the fact that the desktop app keeps getting updated every femtosecond. ...we're still talking over Discord, sad to say.

Signal keeps suggesting I add a contact for my old boss. (Who was a cool guy, but not cool enough to keep in contact with years afterwards.) Actually, when I had an internship a few years afterwards, the new boss's preferred app was Telegram, so, uh, a red flag? ...Yeah, didn't get that job.

Supreme privacy. Two can only keep a secret if one of them is dead.

I actually have my main groupchat on signal, but I think that has more to do with having friends that do drugs than anything else.

::Pete Hegseth has entered the chat::

When I switched to Signal I enforced it hard. Refused to talk to anyone on another platform. If they texted me, I'd responed, but always add "I'd prefer if we discussed this over Signal."

I had more success than I'd anticipated. About 90% of my family and 80% of my friends moved over.

My best piece of advice for this is to start new group chats - people want to be in the group chats, and if they believe Signal is where it's all happening, they'll join.

At least i got 3 people to install Signal just for me.

i've got ~140 contacts on signal

i don't know all of them, probably like 50 are from groups i am part of

Add my number so tht you have one contact

06769666

I have two contacts. My wife, who I text/communicate with more than anyone else, and a long distance friend.

It took begging and pleading for years to get my wife to agree to it. She finally agreed after it came out that the phone network was likely hacked by China.

I tried to get another friend to use it, at whick point he asked if that was the app at the center of whiskey leaks. He never installed it.

If you want to sell private communication tools, just tell people that the creepy ads they see when talking about certain topics will stop appearing.

Lemmy memes signal groupchat when?

DM me for invite. You can trust me. I'm Agent641

Maybe all your contacts also value their privacy and therefore have not set signal to allow them to be discovered by their phone number

Typical security advice is to turn off "find me by my number" in the Signal security settings. You may well have friends who use Signal, but have turned that setting off. You may consider turning it off yourself. Also, you should turn off "see my number" on the same settings screen.

Matrix with bridges has been good for me. Keep all normies and slowly over time convert

You can contact me on signal. I mean, I probably won't respond. But you can.

For a while, it was just my one buddy I convinced to use it and I, but then I got hired at a new company and hit it off with the resident cybersec OG! Having Signal ready to rock gave a great first impression :)

Sounds like it worked

As usual with social interactions, it's the network effect.