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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Don't have friends. Problem solved.

[–] Crashumbc 11 points 8 months ago

And other countries don't understand why US users stick to txt/mms.... Its convenient and built into the phone so everyone has it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I remember when WebOS had unified messaging. Those were the days. 👴

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[–] Wilzax 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Your options are RCS, Signal, or Lemmy mentions. Or losing contact with me I guess but I'm irresistible

[–] banneryear1868 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

"I only talk to other nerds" basically

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (4 children)

So.... proprietary data collecting thing owned by Google, service that requires phone number to sign up, or service that does not even pretend to be E2EE and (worse) routes chat traffic through multiple potentially-adversary-controlled servers on its way to you?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Element has bridges to some of the services

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can just use Matrix with bridges

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (9 children)

Matrix with bridges can help consolidate them. Some managed versions exist like Beeper and Element. Been slowly moving to that. Will eventually self host.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Yeah... This 1000 times... It DOES bother me to install all that shit. What doesn't bother me? Installing a bridge on Matrix and having everything in one place. Hell I've even started adding matrix to my linux scripts. I get notifications about script status in dedicated spaces on my single chat window.

I'm literally SMS away from doing 100% of the chat clients I use for personal usage... And seriously debating on bridging teams for work usage.

I've even gotten my wife onboard. That, to me, speaks about how frustrated normal people are with having many different apps as well.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (25 children)

I use telegram mostly because it have great features and its certainly better than any meta apps in privacy and private enough imo. It was easy to get my friends and family on telegram because they loved those features, signal is just... boring.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I have all of them. Plus linkedin. This is madness

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Too much relatable

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[–] dog_ 8 points 8 months ago

Beeper!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What is the middle one?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Element. It's a popular client for Matrix, which is a federated messaging platform (similar to lemmy and mastodon) with different instances.

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