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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] 134 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, there was a nice period when Pidgin could easily handle all the chats. Then providers siloed their apps 🫀

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (12 children)

That was the time when all the apps were standard XMPP. It didn't have proper encryption back then. WhatsApp is still XMPP nowadays, but excluding federation and non-standard implementation on Meta servers and so on

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It didn't have proper encryption back then.

OTR predates all the commercial platforms adopting XMPP, so that's not exactly true.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just never interact with anyone. Christ, it's not that hard people! (This comment doesn't count.)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (3 children)

We're all bots. You still haven't interacted with a person.

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 8 months ago (11 children)

i really fucking hate discord.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be proprietary. Fucking capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Its pretty amazing for voice communication in gaming.

As a messenging app? Meh

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I don't get why people like it either. It's a mess of chats.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Friends don't make friends install chat apps (besides Signal)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Signal is the best, but no way I'm going to be able to get my wife, my friends, my parents and in-laws to use it.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Have you considered emotional blackmail?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have 3/7 and I hate it. I wish signal never removed the ability to function as sms

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Even if it did, it didn't support rcs

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (1 children)

That's because Google is gatekeeping the android API for RCS

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait, I thought Google wanted Apple to start supporting RCS. So that everyone can talk to each other.

So Google is just...trying to strong arm apple to give up their proprietary protocol for their own?

That's so fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

RCS is an open standard. However, on Android you can only use it with Google chat. So android stops any other apps from using it. Nothing to stop you making your own phone from scratch and adopting it.

It's incredibly stupid, I know.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago

Wait, do you guys have friends?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Spoken like a real android user. All my iPhone friends (and especially family) refuse to download any other app, they just complain that I physically can't download iChat.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (12 children)

As an iPhone user, iChat is mid. I think it’s only in the Us that it is widely used.

Embrace the beauty of Signal now

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Yeah yeah we got it you have multiple friends quit bragging about it now

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago

A chat app for every friend and a launcher for every game. We live in a utopia.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Matrix and bridges

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Random hot take, I'm at least grateful that my wife and I use an app that none of our friends use. Removes the "oh shit did I send that to the wrong person" panic.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Remember E-Mail, everyone?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

A lot of people around me are genuinely confused when your email is not [email protected], as they mostly just use it for confirming logins. That's how bad the situation is.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I miss pidgin for the cross platform chat

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We need a new Trillian or Adium. Fucking anti-interop gatekeepers.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I have a friend that will only chat with me on Instagram. I have his number, but he will never respond to text. He only engages in insta, it’s mildly infuriating.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Literally me.. I've 5/7 of these installed and even have Threema in addition. I don't need more than one Meta Inc product in my life though

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

if you won't talk to me except through insta then you're not worth being friends with just fucking text me like a normal ass human.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I really miss how windows phone allowed other chat services to plug in to it, so that you could have a single chat app for all your contacts, but open the individual apps for advanced features.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Just stop using the spyware ones?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (5 children)

And if you have two phone numbers which you want to use for WhatsApp then you need to clone the damn app because they can't even make such basic functionality

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)
  1. Have friends
  2. Talk to them.
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you even a true nerd if you have so many friends?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

After posting I realized an exported PNG is the same size and looks much better. Enjoy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You should be able to change the image after posting I think

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I remember when WebOS had unified messaging. Those were the days. πŸ‘΄

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Am I too old that one of these should've been Skype?

I abandoned my chat to make a new one in Discord. Despite them complaining about Skype daily for years, suddenly they loved Skype.

Humans are silly. Either way, it's been Discord, Snapchat, and regular text for half a decade now.

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