Chat Apps

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

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

i really fucking hate discord.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be proprietary. Fucking capitalism.

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

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

Wait, do you guys have friends?

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.

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

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

Matrix and bridges

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.

Remember E-Mail, everyone?

I miss pidgin for the cross platform chat

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Just stop using the spyware ones?

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

1. Have friends
2. Talk to them.

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

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

I remember when WebOS had unified messaging. Those were the days. 👴

Somebody please tell me what's wrong with just texting? Why did half the world decide MMS needed to be replaced with a proprietary app? It works, everyone has it and there's no confusion. Unless you are concerned about privacy or something, why not just text?

Edit: MMS not SMS. I didn't understand the difference.

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.

And other countries don't understand why US users stick to txt/mms.... Its convenient and built into the phone so everyone has it.

Don't have friends. Problem solved.

Your options are RCS, Signal, or Lemmy mentions. Or losing contact with me I guess but I'm irresistible

Element has bridges to some of the services

I use telegram mostly because it have great features and its certainly better than any meta apps in privacy and private enough imo. It was easy to get my friends and family on telegram because they loved those features, signal is just... boring.

Matrix with bridges can help consolidate them. Some managed versions exist like Beeper and Element. Been slowly moving to that. Will eventually self host.

Too much relatable

You can just use Matrix with bridges

Let's just go back to IRC and XMPP. The modern "chat" landscape is dismal.

Beeper!

I have all of them. Plus linkedin. This is madness

What's the app in the middle? Never seen that logo

What is the middle one?

Schildichat > Element

Wait a moment it is actually march. How about the DSA against Gatekeepers from the EU? I thought we are all able to communicate to every messenger from the messenger we chose.

Am I the only one who agrees with this non ironically?

I like how my notifications are segregated by friend lol.

This hurts me so much: it's why I revert to text messaging because everyone has a phone number. The only downside is that you can't add/remove numbers to existing groups, so it can get out of hand quickly with the number of group chats.

Element is okay, but I really wish Matrix had better clients on iOS. If Cinny put out an iOS app or got the web app working better on mobile, I’d be way more willing to start using Matrix more.

I only use two of these (signal/molly and discord/aliucord/webcord)

Edit: oo element is on there. I also use that lol.

Fuck, I actually do have all of them.

Hey what's the app tho?

Add SimpleX and Conversations-i2p

Family abroad uses viber🤦

What happened to "Diversity is good"?

Everybody’s got email. Just saying.

I'ma just use my smart phone to, make a call. Or send a letter in the mail. I'm not about to do this lol.

Do not have Instagram and FB Messenger. Discord and WhatsApp are sandboxed, permission restricted and firewalled.

Signal is a fucking desert despite converting so many contacts. Nobody uses it in the past few years.

Wait you guys use Signal? Idk a single Canadian that uses it we all use Discord, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Telegram, WeChat, and Snapchat depending on the person. The reason why I put WeChat there because I had to use it in university because at the time we had a lot of Chinese international students so had no choice

I was. And I texted everyone with sms.

What frustrates me the most about this is that if we promote one commercial solution to the top of the heap, destroying all others, we still lose.

Give Beeper a try! It consolidates all the listed apps into one texting app.

Good one

https://xkcd.com/1810/

I have a bunch of chat apps. I live in a country that uses a mix of messenger, telegram, viber, and whatsapp. Although it is mostly messenger.

Whatsapp for irl friends, Discord for online friends and gaming, email for professional communication. Not too complicated

As a new player in the BFF market, Imma need you to add Threema to that spread

Not really, Signals cool and buttery smooth and also the gold standard

So glad everyone here just uses whatsapp. Yeah yeah, meta sucks and privacy is bad. I prefer the ease of use and being able to communicate though.

Thanks apple!

Email or text. Otherwise fuck off

Beeper handles most of these