Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon)

Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by godelski on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @08:12PM (#33185512)

I was more thinking to port chats from your phone to the desktop. The desktop client is on the NAS and serves as the "storage" where you can search your full backup. I would guess there would be a more difficult solution where you could hack the phone app to sync all data instead of just when your desktop connects. So that solution might take more than just a Saturday night ;)

I agree that there aren't really any great solutions. But the alternative is that Signal stores your data. I think this would make a lot of users very upset and compromise part of Signal's core mission.

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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by daedalus_j on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:28PM (#33196715)

Agree, I don't want them storing anything.

This is one area where, and I know what you're going to say, but Matrix actually does really well. My data, on my server, in my house, not tied to any specific single device I own but distributed across several and backed up in an encrypted manner.

But you've got me thinking about the data export option. Saturday is coming. Hmm...

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Re:Removing SMS support from Signal Android (soon) by godelski on Thursday October 13, 2022 @07:29PM (#33197828)

> and I know what you're going to say, but Matrix actually does really well.

I'm actually a fan of Matrix. I just see Matrix and Signal as different tools. You're probably aware of it, but if not, there is a Matrix bridge for Signal.

> But you've got me thinking about the data export option. Saturday is coming. Hmm...

Hey, I'm really hoping it works. Let me know how it goes!

[0] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/bridge/mautrix-signal

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