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I only use it because there's no way I could convince my friends and family to move to anything else.
There's no point in switching to another app if I then literally couldn't communicate with the people I need to through it.
Messaging apps curse is exactly that... No matter how good they are, if nobody is using it... In WhatsApp I have +100 of my contacts, in Telegram, 20. In Signal, less than 10, so...
Signal kinda put themselves out of the messaging app battle when they dropped SMS support
I totally get why they did it, but I think a lot of people stopped using it for this reason, unfortunately
Yeah, I guess I'm not sure about the actual statistics. I do know it was the point when I realized I wouldn't personally use Signal because everyone I know uses SMS, SMS federates with email, and if I tried switching to a non-SMS app, I'd be screaming into a void.
The only other message apps people around here use are Snapchat, FB Messenger, and WhatsApp, and I'd rather cut people off than use any of those.