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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.
I think Snikket is a great way of getting people in. Host a jabber hive through snikket with an address like metalhive.social, stanislavskiheads.space, windmillers.xyz or medleypool.com; then share links or qr codes to the target audience. and bing bang bong, everybody is in. Talk of it as if it’s obviously the easiest approach to messaging.