It’s not even “more” inconvenient. I use the same client to access Lemmy that I did Reddit (sync on Android). All I did was download the Lemmy version and sign up.

Shame, because on its face, I thought it was a really interesting technology that solved an underlying infrastructure problem in the fediverse’s makeup.

It’s free in the US, so there’s ~360 million potential users they decided to make things harder for

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.