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Signal Sucks, Actually When I first installed Signal in the second half of 2023 to stay in touch with a few friends who had recently switched, it did not support message edits. This completely broke the way I used instant messengers. At that point, editing messages was a widely deployed feature across other instant messaging clients. Conversations had supported it since February 20161 and I had acquired a habit of typing a message, sending it, and only then reading it again and checking for typos. The lack of such an essential feature caused me to send incomprehensible messages, making the app almost unusable for me. Signal forced me to adapt and change my habits.
@poVoq None of the messaging systems have anything technical that makes any of them more significant or useful than others. Some really annoy and piss me off, and I use them way less often. So, as the article said: it’s about who I can reach. I miss when Google and Facebook were XMPP, and I could use pidgin for pretty much everything. BTW: I’m mcr@xmpp.credil.org.
Not quite true.
Different feature sets make some solutions more useful than others.
I like that I can set my profile pic to contacts only, that I do not have to share my ID in public chats, which helps a lot against spam, that I have a protocol that’s fast and efficient, that I can see the timezone of people I’m communicating with and that components can have commands. I like using IRC via XMPP, as I don’t need a separate bouncer.
Choosing something with the right feature set is more useful than choosing something else.
You’re not wrong, but people use Hot Flaming bags of dog shit all the time. Building up a large user base of people who use it isn’t the most important thing oh that’s the only thing