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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?

PureTryOut ,
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Email, Matrix (also with friends and family) and sadly also still WhatsApp…

TheGrandNagus , (edited )

I tried to get everyone on Signal, and I personally donate £5 monthly to Signal, but everybody left. I’m forced to be 100% WhatsApp, because that’s what society uses.

I’m somewhat annoyed that the EU offered Signal the chance of becoming relevant on a silver platter, by forcing WhatsApp to open itself up and offer interoperability with other chat apps, while still maintaining proper E2EE using the Signal protocol, and Signal said nah.

E: oh, and I don’t manage to play much on my PC these days (my gaming time these days is more “oh, I have 20 minutes free, I’ll play on my steam deck while chilling on the couch for a bit!”), but on the once in a blue moon occasion I do, I’ll open up Discord, because good look trying to get people to use anything else.

Tetsuo ,

I stopped using Signal when they dropped SMS support.

It’s a great project but with very bad leadership and strategy.

They definitely had the best shot to secure communications and wasted it.

fart_pickle ,

I use SMS and good old phone calls. You would be surprised how much people freak up when you call them. For work I use Slack, sometimes Teams. And on rare occasions, Messenger to talk to some family members.

edit Forgot about emails. I use it for more planned communications.

solrize ,

Email and sometimes irc. And old fashioned sms when needed.

pooky55 OP ,

IRC is still alive?

badbrainstorm ,
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IRC will never die! I mean, it probably will eventually. It’s still fairly popular with Linux users, and even stil preinstalled on some distros

pooky55 OP ,

Are there some websites or lists of interesting channels?

badbrainstorm ,
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Depends on what you’re into. It’s kinda like discord, in that it has a lot of servers for specific communities/apps/games, etc.

I used it mostly for pirating cause it was always blazing fast compared to torrenting.

Libera.chat, IRCNet, Undernet, Rizon, EFNet are the biggest networks I can think of off my head. Each has like 5000 to 20000 channels!

4shtonButcher ,

I’d love to use Signal exclusively and recommend it or move over group chats wherever possible. But some friends and family keep me on WhatsApp and messenger. IMHO using those less is better than using them a lot and having more apps is better than socially isolating yourself.

lurch ,

I use MS Teams for work. We don’t have to use it, but it’s more comfortable to send a chat message when I’m late for a meeting, than to phone the front desk and tell them to relay it to all attendees. Also, you can send Chats to yourself and I do it for work related notes I want to make off work, i.e. a neews article I want to share with colleagues during working hours.

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