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by ynniv 2872 days ago
What's the point of gaining traction if it doesn't deliver on its fundamental promise?
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Because the theoretical possibility of being monitored on Signal is preferable to the near-certainty of being monitored on Facebook Messenger.
That's a strawman: you need to beat boring SMS and PSTN, not Facebook Messenger.
Until I started forcing them to when I quit Facebook, I had no acquaintances that used SMS, they all use FB Messenger. This is the problem.