I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
Your options are RCS, Signal, or Lemmy mentions. Or losing contact with me I guess but I’m irresistible
Nah everyone has RCS these days except people with old phones and iPhones, and even the iPhones are going to be rcs compatible soon
Add SimpleX and Conversations-i2p
Yep SimpleX works great. Although every time I read the name I think of herpes.
Hahaha, SimpleX on Android is fine, the Desktop client is kinda incompatible with anything (no flatpak, the ubuntu version is kinda broken, no repo, their sync requires a random firewall port to be open)
Interesting. For my desktop, I just installed a binary from the AUR and it works wonderfully.
Remember E-Mail, everyone?
Just stop using the spyware ones?
Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they’ve already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with “the most backdoor looking bug” with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.
Telegram’s backend is proprietary software and they (very similarly to Discord for example) can just decide to read your chats whenever they want. It’s even worse then WhatsApp in this sense (at least as long as you trust Facebook that they actually encrypt your chats, again, there is no way to know if it’s proprietary software).
Are you even a true nerd if you have so many friends?
