Have any of you android users setup an iMessage server such as BoueBubbles or AirMessage? Or some similar?
If so, how well does it work? Is only an apple account required? Do apple users send your email an iMessage? Also, was it easy to setup?
Thanks!!!
Agreed. However, iMessage is better than sms. And I am trying my best to remove sms from my life
Signal
Again agreed, however some people either won’t switch, or it would be more convenient to just use iMessage
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It’s mostly a north american problem as far as I know. In Germany more than 80% of the people use WhatsApp. Almost no one uses sms anymore.
If the alternative is sms I understand why people like iMessage so much.
Edit: Some more data, it seems like iMessage has about as many users as Signal, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/867539/top-active-social-media-platforms-in-germany/
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SMS support was dropped because people were using Signal thinking their conversations were encrypted and it was only through unencrypted SMS. It’s hard to sell the privacy part of Signal when it’s not actually guaranteed, so they got rid of that.
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Whatsapp might be E2EE but it feeds a hell of a lot of telemetry to the zuckerburger.
Signal is probably the best we have right now, but god do we need an open standard.