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Signal Will Let You Sign Up Without a Phone Number — For $3
itsfoss.com/news/signal-numberless-registration/Replying to @Crumpled6273@lemmy.ca
All the purist here would rather use matrix to send messages to themselves…
Signal is an amazing alternative to WhatsApp and one of the few apps you can actually get non-techies to install. If it’s not for you then don’t use but don’t say stupid shit like “why would anyone use it? it’s not perfect!”.
Replying to @ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
What about Matrix is harder than email?
Replying to @roundabout@feddit.org
for me, it’s that it breaks randomly. all. the. time.
With element, it was constant across two different homeservers I tried. Either logging me out, or just randomly unverifying my client and failing to decrypt messages.
with fluffychat, it’s been more stable, but recently it’s taken to logging me and a friend of mine out at random just like Element. After logging back in, it constantly tells me there’s an error fetching the notification (even though I’m not launching from a notification) due to the account not existing.
The protocol feels incredibly fragile, since it seems every implementation trips over the same footguns, and it makes the user experience horrible.