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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by tsugu@slrpnk.net to c/memes@lemmy.ml

I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

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[-] Dustwin@lemmy.ca 134 points 8 months ago

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

[-] bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 55 points 8 months ago

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

[-] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago

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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[-] ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 93 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 22 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 85 points 8 months ago

i really fucking hate discord.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be proprietary. Fucking capitalism.

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago

Its pretty amazing for voice communication in gaming.

As a messenging app? Meh

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[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 12 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 62 points 8 months ago

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

[-] SundryTornAsunder@discuss.tchncs.de 22 points 8 months ago

Not sure why you were downvoted. I've successfully made most of my friends, and my mom for that matter, talk to me on Signal.

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 25 points 8 months ago

The comment implies Signal is peak chat when it’s flawed & other than maybe onboarding, isn’t superior to alternatives—with the phone number being a pro for onboarding is a con for privacy. It still requires you have an Android or iOS primary device (fueling that duopoly). They don’t want you installing it from a safer space like F-Droid. They still by default send notification metadata to Google & Apple (websocket support exists but drains a fair amount of battery & they refuse to support UnifiedPush). They still ship/use Apple emoji on Android & Linux. It’s still a centralized system you can’t self-host. They still have that missing part of the source code (where I would assume the feds planted something). It still isn’t a good space large chats. And the Electron desktop apps are far too bloated.

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[-] flubba86@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 37 points 8 months ago

Have you considered emotional blackmail?

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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago

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

[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

Even if it did, it didn't support rcs

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago

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

[-] CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 24 points 8 months ago

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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[-] Jedi@bolha.forum 39 points 8 months ago

Wait, do you guys have friends?

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 34 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] hector@sh.itjust.works 21 points 8 months ago

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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[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 28 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

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

[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 26 points 8 months ago
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[-] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 24 points 8 months ago

Remember E-Mail, everyone?

[-] tsugu@slrpnk.net 19 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] myusernameis@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago

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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[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago

I miss pidgin for the cross platform chat

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[-] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

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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[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 18 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] Pfnic@feddit.ch 17 points 8 months ago

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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[-] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[-] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 16 points 8 months ago

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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[-] nick@feddit.de 15 points 8 months ago

Just stop using the spyware ones?

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[-] figjam@midwest.social 14 points 8 months ago
  1. Have friends
  2. Talk to them.
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[-] repungnant_canary@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

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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[-] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 13 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] tsugu@slrpnk.net 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] Micromot@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago

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

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[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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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