Signal has announced new functionality in its upcoming beta releases, allowing users to transfer messages and media when linking their primary Signal device to a new desktop or iPad. This feature offers the choice to carry over chats and the last 45 days of media, or to start fresh with only new messages.
The transfer process is end-to-end encrypted, ensuring privacy. It involves creating a compressed, encrypted archive of your Signal data, which is then sent to the new device via Signal’s servers. Despite handling the transfer, the servers cannot access the message content due to the encryption.
With the introduction of a cross-platform archive format, Signal is also exploring additional tools for message transfer to new devices or restoration in case of device loss or damage. Users can begin testing this feature soon, with a wider rollout expected in the coming weeks.
I’m honestly curious and your answer just parroted what I said without explanation. Are you just sitting around reading conversations from months ago for entertainment or something? What value are you getting out of keeping chats from years ago?
Not in the slightest. For what purpose would I want that? I’m not making a This American Life podcast using my inane conversations.
No not really, not outside of if I’m reminiscing with the person the convo was with (see examples in my other comments ITT), but I will ctrl+f and find info that way of something they said to me for sure.
Access to information? Not deleting things I might need or that might be useful later? Memories? Records of things that happened?
Kind of the same reason you’d keep a diary, but without the effort of actually writing anything in one. What’s even the point of writing anything if it’s just gonna be gone in like a week?
What value are you getting out of deleting them? Are you low on storage or something? Or some sort of minimal living life-in-my-backpack type?
Monetary value isn’t the only kind of value to me I guess. Different strokes.
We are all but dust, my friend.
I already gave my reasons. I don’t want a history of my conversations that can be leaked. I enjoy my privacy. And I have no other reasons to keep them. I was just looking for an actual reason to keep these because I just don’t get it. And I guess you’ve got nothing to offer there. Which is fine, I was just trying to understand.
Implying that the only value I recognize is monetary? Don’t be a dick.
That’s very fatalistic. In the end, unfortunately, for now, maybe, but that doesn’t mean the journey doesn’t have memories worth making and things worth keeping, especially when it comes to our bonds with others, and especially when it’s just undeniably useful, or we’d never have invented writing.
I mean I gave the reasons many times over? From personal to purely practical. If they don’t seem to have value to you, that’s on you. I don’t know what else you want?
You’re the one who said you’d keep them for a podcast? I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be a dick, i was just going off what you said.