I mainly use WhatsApp. I have tried moving on from it, but it is too pervasive in my circles. If I stop using it I will miss too much, so for now I'll stick to it.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I was able to convince 4-5 people in my close circle to use Signal. I hope more people will choose it.
I boycott anything in the Facebook conglomerate. That means I am completely out of touch with 95% of the people in my country. Bloody lemmings.
I used Signal because it could seamlessly work with sms, but as they killed that, I killed Signal.
So now I use only SMS and Email. But people can't be bothered. FML
Can’t be bothered to SMS? Jesus. @-@
Sadly, the inferior WhatsApp is very common in some countries.
yeah :/
In Japan, it's LINE. Garbage app but the entire population uses it so.
Whatsapp, Element and FB Messenger.
Steam Friends
iMessage, email and FB🤬Messenger for the family. Did I just date myself?
Signal for personal. Discord for gaming. Element/Matrix as much as I can.
WhatsApp. Some amount of Instagram chat. But that's it.
Signal (and RCS) for close friends and family, FB Messenger for uni stuff and work
I use Discord and Instagram. I hate pretty much everything about the latter but everyone in my friend group uses it. I wish they still had that app with Instagram dms and nothing else.
Telegram, Discord, and plain old sms.
WhatsApp, in general, and Telegram for closer friends.
Discord
Signal for personal & Discord
I prefer Signal, but have Whatsapp, FB Messenger, Slack, and Google Messages for everyone that doesn't want to use it.
Also RIP Signal's SMS feature, that was the gateway drug I was able to use to get people using it.
The confusion around messaging standards, even among the "non-normies" shows they made a good call removing SMS functionality from the app.
An average joe doesn't distinguish between SMS, RCS, iMessage, Signal, Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Kakaotalk, Instagram chat etc, it's just "texting" to them. People were so confused about all these that even r/signal was full of posts "why does texting to iPhone still suck after installing signal?". It was a daily thing, for whatever reason users didn't understand that Signal fixed the blurry photos problem between iPhones and Android devices but ONLY when used Signal-to-Signal. Normal SMS/MMS texting was still limited by this technology. Or another thing, people though Signal made chatting free. Sure, if used for sending Signal messages and not SMS. SMS were still within your plan, so why would Signal suddenly make them free?
I use Matrix & XMPP almost exclusively, with some IRC on the side.
I also use Cheogram/JMP’s SMS-->XMPP service, it’s quite handy to check SMS on my computer.
I heard about JMP for the first time from you, I will check it out
Signal and telegram plus slack for work. Rarely I will use threema and Matrix.
Teams. The choice of a new generation.
Telegram, for a singular, friend group chat. And the cool Amazon sales channels. Whatsapp for family and anything work related.
In order: Signal, SMS (stock app), and Matrix (element)
Telegram, group chat moved from WhatsApp to Signal but it's too buggy that they hated it. Telegram has been good (privacy issues aside)
What sort of privacy issues has telegram had?
Signal, iMessage and Discord mostly.
I use Signal and Matrix for my daily messaging and Discord for gaming. I am very happy that most people are aware of Meta.
Where I am WhatsApp is the go to for general communication as well as business. I also use discord for my extracurricular stuff and some game groups.
Wish Signal adoption was better here, but it hasn't taken yet with WhatsApp being so widespread.