@antoniovr @signalapp @silence those users do eventually sign up and use signal, but they mostly cared about sms encryption, so once they dropped sms, my friends just dropped signal cause they really didn't see it as an independent chat program and didn't want another messenger on their phone dividing their contacts.
Having Signal be more of a Umbrella that combined both sms and encrypted messaging was a huge boon that has been missing in my applist.
Thank you for suggestion I'll check it out
@cosvak @signalapp @silence i see now project is probably dead so good luck looking for forks! It is still possible to install (i actually have it installed but not active) but no upgrades since 5 years ago. By the way, this were the official reasons for the split: https://signal.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/ where i live sms is nearly extinguided (only used to receive confirmation sms), so the functionality was not really needed. But i remember in Denmark for ex. sms was still quite alive 2 years ago...