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what messaging app do you use? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So here's the thing, every time I try to move away from Facebook messenger I run into the same problem, nobody else in my friends or family actually want to use a secure, private messenger app like signal or telegram, my wife, my parents, my in-laws, my friends they're ALL on Facebook and they will never take signal seriously enough to actually use it, it really bums me out that there are these far superior options but without anyone else using them they're pointless..

Anyway what apps do you use to stay in touch with people?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My issue with signal is that their desktop app sucks. No message sync, it needs the phone as a relay and it’s made with Electron.

[–] bruzzard 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Signal desktop is designed to be a stand alone app that uses the phone phone to first verify the connection via QR but after that relays messages, calls, erc direct from and to the server, inrependently of the phone app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Did they change it recently or was I mistaken?

[–] Spam 10 points 1 year ago

Mistaken

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think it was like that years ago. Or at least, it felt like it and if I recall correctly the Signal Protocol docs describe the functionality in that manner.