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The feature that I missed the most after switching to signal was Live location sharing. It is just so convenient to find your friends while going out or going to the street exactly at the time someone is there to pick you up.

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Wow I did not realize that Signal was missing this. I think they are focusing on getting more people on board than building a great app.

Too many people blame Matrix but I love it. It's UI is not as polished but hey I can work with it because sooner or later all these centralized apps run after revenue and ruin the most basic stuff that these app should do: messaging.

what happens in your decentralized system if one of your friends has their account registered on a naughty naughty server that just got blacklisted by the righteous admins of your instance and now you can't talk together anymore? does that person need to make a completely new account just to send some messages to you? does a migration scenario exist? and if it exists, does it warn your contacts and transfer everything seemlessly?

Last time I checked Matrix was researching about the topic of multiple homeservers. So you could just use a local homeserver on your device and a remote homesesrver with a fancy name simultaniously. This would also enable users to communicate P2P. But I don't know how advanced this system is yet.

Don't you get this if you click on the "+" icon? I see options for Camera, GIF, File, etc. then "Location" and I've sent my location this way. Using iPhone.

You can just send your current Location. Not have the message update continuously.

Same on Android.

>after switching to signal was Live location sharing

Which messaging apps have actual Live Location sharing?

WhatsApp too…

As do Facebook Messenger and iMessage

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