[tracyhenry]

"many of them use Signal" - where is this conclusion come from? They have WeChat. I've never seen any of my Chinese friends using Signal.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

That's kinda irrelevant to whether Signal should try to help Chinese users?

[rejschaap]

Totally irrelevant, but it's there, in the headline and it's not true.

They probably tried to say that most of signal users use third party keyboards.

[tracyhenry]

Idk. I commented because the title is wrong and misleading.

[Aperocky]

This. Absolutely none of my family and friends in China use Signal. There are a few that uses slack though.

[jackjeff]

When Donald Trump threatened to block WeChat in the US expats and Chinese people alike started to download Signal.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-bans-wechat-some...

[tracyhenry]

That's about Chinese people in the US. The headline explicitly says "people in China".

Note that even for Chinese people in the US (myself included), Signal was in my experience a pretty minor choice when Trump was trying to ban WeChat. Whatsapp, Line, etc were among the favorite alternatives.