Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
by jwr on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @12:43AM
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> different people have different ideas and requirements about how they want things like this to work
Agreed. But I can't convince people and family to use Signal if I know that one day they will inevitably lose the pictures of their loved ones. Because that's how most people use communicator apps.
Re:Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know
by aaaaaaaaata on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @06:14AM
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Let me show you this picture of my grandson....
opens Signal, scrolls for weeks
You could show them where the Save button is — that's how "most" people use messaging apps. Even "friends and family".
On the other hand, I consider this a feature.
I'm not saying you are wrong, but I am saying different people have different ideas and requirements about how they want things like this to work.
For me, most of my Signal chats have disappearing messages enabled, to intentionally ensure there is no long term archive of conversations (assuming you trust the other people to not be screenshotting everything). It gets you into the habit of storing message that may be useful later (mostly for me stuff like event details or addresses), with the benefit of making everybody in the conversation a little more inclined to treat it all as ephemeral and be somewhat more candid then you might be in SMS or email. Not _quite_ as candid as face to face in private, but closer.
There's a widely used and agreed on signal for most of my group chats, where setting disappearing messages to 5 minutes is understood to mean "juicy gossip or legal grey area chat is about to follow" and setting it back to 8 hours or 1 week means "OK, we're done with that discussion, back to regular chat".