[nameisname]

Me and all my friends have used signal for years. What do you mean you gave up? I've never had any issues and it beats the hell out of text. Like I said, I communicate with probably 15 people at least daily consistently via IM and 3 of those are text the rest signal.

[neltnerb]

My entire family, most of my friends... I hardly ever get a regular SMS, usually it's spam or a company message.

Granted I did a little bit of work to convince them, but "you can use it on your computer and do video calls with your phone number" was good enough, even if vaguely inaccurate. It's much more functional than SMS.

But that's also in the US, I think other apps are more popular plenty of places which are just as much better than SMS anyway. Signal I think has good adoption in the US because the competitor was so terrible.