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They used to allow their client to be used to send unsecured SMS. Then they stopped. Whatever they thought they were doing, they killed the simplest path to onboarding laypeople they had. I kinda gave up on signal after that.
No ones pays for SMS.
Exactly. No one pays for it because it's free
Not in most places.
It's free in the US, so there's ~360 million potential users they decided to make things harder for