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    6. Recommendations about which Android texting app to use?

      ~tech Ask (recommendations)
      Could someone please recommend a text messaging app for Android that is reasonably secure? Verizon is discontinuing their native texting (SMS) app. They recommend switching to Google Messages, but...

      Could someone please recommend a text messaging app for Android that is reasonably secure?

      Verizon is discontinuing their native texting (SMS) app. They recommend switching to Google Messages, but I would not like Google to have access to my entire text messaging history. I tried Signal, but my old messages don't transfer over (minor problem), and almost none of my family are willing to switch to Signal (big problem). When I search for advice, I get a bunch of AI slop articles and advertisements. So I figured I might have better luck asking here: Is there any text messaging app for Android that works well and isn't going to hoover up all my data?

      16 votes

    9. T-Mobile SMS is filtering tildes.net

      ~tildes Ask
      I just noticed that when I sent an invite to family member over SMS it never arrived. After experimenting it looks like if text contains "tildes.net" it is filered. This also happens with another...

      I just noticed that when I sent an invite to family member over SMS it never arrived. After experimenting it looks like if text contains "tildes.net" it is filered. This also happens with another family member's phone. It is weird why would those companies want to filter it.

      I also checked and the message didn't show up in spam & blocked. Does anyone else observe the same thing?

      41 votes