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@chris interesting. I also interested in #Signal. Let me help share.

@ademalsasa FTR, I love Signal... but a growing number of people won't use it anymore. It works as an SMS app on Android but not only won't sync those messages (which would make it a real iMessage replacement) but moves them into its own database which breaks other SMS apps.

@chris @ademalsasa afaik signal stores all messages on your device and not on a server, I guess thats why the messages wont sync between devices

@dsv @ademalsasa I get it. But it also intercepts those messages from the main message store breaking other SMS apps. As a result nearly every android user I know has stopped using it all together. It's nice to say that they do it because "SMS isn't safe" but that reasoning simply doesn't work with all too many users

@chris your question is very veyr interesting, Chris. I am sorry I do not have phone nor phone number. But what do you think about this list?

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=sms&lang=en

@dsv

@ademalsasa @dsv Thank you! I'll take a fresh look for anything that might sync messages.

@chris at that page, there is Nextcloud SMS that says it sync your SMS to online server. I do not know it and cannot confirm anything, but I think you can have a look at that!

@dsv

@ademalsasa @dsv When I last tried it it could sync, but in NC they're read only. I'll give it a 2nd look.

@chris good luck. Wish you the best solution.

@dsv

@ademalsasa @dsv Thanks! It's amazing that a feature that is so common if you're "all in" with Google or Apple is so hard to reproduce in anything else :/