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This is going to seriously harm their user base. I've used signal for years, but will have to drop it with change. People aren't interested in maintaining several different messaging apps.


I’ll bet that user’s sending plaintext sms’s thinking they were secure end to end encrypted messages did much more harm.


Most people already use multiple messaging apps. Facebook Messenger, Instagram, default SMS app, etc.

Basically no-one does all of that in one app, so using Signal for Signal messages is normal for those people.




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