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What kind of messaging apps do you use?

I have been cleaning my phone - removing Google Services, Google Account and replacing it with alternatives. Strangely, I do still have many very different messaging app. If I count correctly, there is Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Viber and also two local apps TakeUp and Mastadon. I am more and more returning back to SMS messages and normal encrypted e-mails.

What do you use most and is it normal, to have so many messaging apps and using them all for different people groups?

foremanguy92_ ,

My go-to for pretty much all purposes would be to use SimpleX, it’s a really good secure and private app that is in early development. Basically it use the Signal protocol, but in an app without telemetry, blobs, etc… Or if you want to use Signal, download Molly

My other recommandation would be Matrix for large public groups or business talk.

sundriedpizza ,

I mostly use Signal and qksms for SMS. Also use element(Matrix).

praise_idleness ,

I use Signal with my girlfriend. Others only use Kakaotalk, which is a shittier South Korean Whatsapp clone with more ads and more ways to make money off of you and occasionally SMS.

terminal ,

Exactly the same here. I loathe kakao

praise_idleness ,

There is no app that I hate more than Kakaotalk.

WhyJiffie ,

I only have Telegram and Matrix. SMS? To me that sounds to be a huge step back, even from Telegram

dubya43 ,
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iMessage exclusively p much

NineMileTower ,

I’m an American with an Android phone. I use Google Messages for SMS because no one uses anything but iMessages or SMS here. It blows ass.

pooky55 OP ,

No Telegram or Signal or Mastadon? That’s little bit strange, considering the amount of USA surveillance 👀

AdamEatsAss ,

I don’t think most citizens of the USA care about surveillance. (Source: I am a citizen who doesn’t care) Targeted ads don’t really bother me. I care more about convenience than privacy and a good portion of people I know feel the same way. I guess it’s a cultural thing.

ObsidianNebula ,

I’m from the US as well, and I can verify that very few average people use those types of messengers primarily. It is almost exclusively iMessage and SMS/MMS/RCS texts as the main form of messaging. I will admit that quite a few people will use the messaging features that are built into social media apps (like messaging in Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, etc). At least to me, it seems like those are moreso used for sending memes or messaging people you don’t interact with regularly and are still secondary to the other forms of messaging.

SirEDCaLot ,

Surprised nobody here is talking about Matrix. Open source, client side / end to end encrypted, chat history stored (encrypted) on the server so it syncs to every device, supports federation, and supports bridges so you can use Matrix to access your other accounts like Signal, WhatsApp, etc and have everything in one place.

Beeper.com is based on Matrix and worth a look. But you can also self-host everything.

Blisterexe ,

I really like beeper, but im probably gonna selfhost all the bridges once i have the hw

SirEDCaLot ,

FWIW beeper is moving towards a client side hosting model where your phone app hosts the bridges. They currently have a local hosted Signal bridge which runs on the phone…

WhyJiffie ,

did they also move the HS to the phone?

SirEDCaLot ,

That was for Beeper Mini which was an attempt at imessage on android.
I don’t think the new version runs the homeserver on the phone; with the new version you can still participate in federated chats and use the desktop client so I don’t think it majorly changed in that way.

MentalEdge ,
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Happy self-hosting matrix user with bridges to various chats, and I’ve successfully converted family to use it, too.

People really like having all their chats in one app.

It’s not simple though. Matrix is the most complicated service I have to maintain.

SirEDCaLot ,

Yeah Synapse is still largely a first gen system. There will be others.

ABCDE ,

WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, in order of usage.

CIAvash ,
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Delta Chat, SimpleX and Jami

Im_old ,

Surprised no one mentioned simplex yet. So whatsapp, matrix (personal server, for family and as a bridge to whatsapp), and simplex.

pooky55 OP ,

What is Simplex?

Im_old ,

Simplex chat, encrypted anonymous platform.

Humanius ,
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Discord and Whatsapp
I’d love to use Signal, but virtually noone in my sphere uses it.

gerryflap ,
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I try to steer as many people as I know to Signal, but I don’t want to be the type of person who accepts no compromise so I also use a bunch of others. Whatsapp is the most common, as pretty much everyone here in the Netherlands uses it. I used to use Telegram, but nowadays I trust it less than Whatsapp and all my Telegram chats have moved to Signal. SMS is only there for backup and older people who don’t use other apps. And Discord is there for people who want their messages to never be read, because that app is a dumpster fire that constantly makes me miss messages.

noodlejetski ,

Signal for some friends and family, Whatsapp (ugh) mainly for work, Discord (ugh ugh) with a few gaming buddies, and Matrix for a group chat or two.

hades ,

wait, you’re actually using encrypted email? Is it for work or you use it with friends/family too?

I’ve never received an encrypted email in my entire life.

pooky55 OP ,

Encrypted like Proton Email - it means they don’t read my emails by default like Google or Microsoft

random_character_a ,
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Telegram and SMS.

Although I just ordered Heltec T114 for Mestastic LoRa communication, but that’s a system, not just app/software.

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