Signal is my jam.

Aim wants a word.

That is a spicy take I must day

I doubt the people who already commented will read that, but if you live in another country than the people you contact, you have to pay extra for calls and SMS. That's the sole reason I use Whatsapp. I cannot afford not to. The only people I've ever met who don't use it are some Asians who use some Kakao app instead.

Then what is facebook messenger? Netscape?

in our country we use viber and I don't know which one is worse

I agree 100% with you. Whatscrapp is just a proprietary user subjugating version of XMPP. I prefer to communicate using xmpp protocol because it's federated like fediverse. You can use conversation for android