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Same applies to every other messaging app that's not federated which is almost all of them.


Yep, and if you check your local app store, it's full of thousands of also-ran messaging apps that are, indeed, dead. While Signal had SMS it had a feature that was NOT common on other apps, now it has the SAME feature set as, say, Whatsapp, and so instead of being a better Whatsapp (because it had features Whatsapp didn't) it's now a worse Whatsapp (same feature set, much smaller userbase), so it's doomed. Just like all the other also-ran apps.


For many it's still better than WhatsApp because it implements actual E2EE.




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