{"id":1443,"date":"2025-06-18T09:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:13:41","slug":"from-skype-to-signal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=1443","title":{"rendered":"From Skype to Signal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the unfortunate demise of Skype, it&#8217;s hard to go past the <a href=\"https:\/\/signal.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Signal<\/a> messaging app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having used both apps for years it&#8217;s a shame Skype ended the way it did. Microsoft could have spun it off and started charging for it to make it viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signal, in the other hand, is free and open source. The two apps are similar from a usability standpoint, with the main difference being Skype had a global directory available for user searches. Signal doesn&#8217;t have that but it will match a local phone contact with anyone who also has Signal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A great thing about Signal is its native cross platform support. With Skype, and other apps, Linux support has been a afterthought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TIP: Signal works well as a fast cross platform clipboard. Just pair your mobile and desktop devices and you can share text with all your devices in an instant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for an efficient cross platform SMS-like app then Signal is awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the unfortunate demise of Skype, it&#8217;s hard to go past the Signal messaging app. Having used both apps for years it&#8217;s a shame&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,27],"tags":[135,123,249,250],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft","category-mobile","category-open-source","tag-mobile-2","tag-opensource","tag-signal","tag-skype"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}