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Re:Improving first impressions on Signal by slownews45 on Monday November 01, 2021 @06:42PM (#29074228)
I've not had this problem with iMessage really. Are you SURE its not possible to block out bad actors on messaging?
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Re:Improving first impressions on Signal by sneak on Monday November 01, 2021 @07:51PM (#29074977)
Apple keeps detailed metadata records of who sends messages to whom on iMessage, when, and how often.

Signal does not.

Apple backs up iMessage plaintext contents to Apple, via non-e2e iCloud Backup, bypassing iMessage's end to end encryption.

Signal does not.

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Re:Improving first impressions on Signal by slownews45 on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:27PM (#29085411)
My point is whatever approach apple is taking, I'm not getting a lot of spam on iMessage, and the one time I did it was pretty easy to mark as spam if I remember.
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Re:Improving first impressions on Signal by asethos on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @12:19PM (#29096760)
iMesssage allows you to filter out bad actors -- but raw SMS (green text message) does not. I was getting a few SMS messages a day, each from a different phone number, likely with a service like TextNow.com
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