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Good actually user friendly foss chat app? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 weeks ago by bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ? Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough to make people switch to, that won't have issues and send them running back to zucc

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Signal is super user friendly. All my normie friends use it. Not super in the spirit of foss as it's not meant to be self hosted—which imo makes the server practically proprietary/source available. (ik people self host it anyway, but it's not supported and Signal don't like people self hosting or even making custom clients.) SimpleX is good too but not as polished as Signal.