• seaQueue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Now if they’d just let me run the damned client on more than one device so I can reply to messages from my tablet.

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              1 year ago

              But they do sync. They just don’t keep messaging history, which is, as you say, by design. Signal doesn’t keep copies of your messages so they cannot give you old message history if you connect your account to a new device.

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                That’s true, but once you trust a new device, there’s no reason the authority (your phone that has all history) couldn’t transfer the history over to the new client.

                I get it would add some complexity, but it could be done in a secure and private way.

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                  I feel like that is also by design. If your account is compromised, you wouldn’t want them to be able to pull messages from your existing devices. It kinda defeats the purpose of them not being stored on the servers.

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                    1 year ago

                    They could just make it opt-in, no?

                    “New device X has logged in to your account. Do you want to transfer existing history on this device to it?”

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                    1 year ago

                    They removed this support, because it was misleading users who thought they were getting E2EE when using it as an SMS client.

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                1 year ago

                They could sync those between devices on the same network. It’s definitely possible to have both.

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            Yup, exactly. I switch between phone and tablet during the day and signal is the only messaging client that makes me stop what I’m doing and pick up an entirely separate device to check messages and reply. A bunch of my friends ended up on telegram or matrix because the usage model just doesn’t work for people who use multiple android or iOS devices.

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            1 year ago

            Probably mean run it on more than one phone. I’d love to run it on my iPhone and my android phone but it can’t be run without a phone number on a phone afaik