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Chat Apps (kbin.run)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tsugu@slrpnk.net to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] Wilzax@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

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

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So.... proprietary data collecting thing owned by Google, service that requires phone number to sign up, or service that does not even pretend to be E2EE and (worse) routes chat traffic through multiple potentially-adversary-controlled servers on its way to you?

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[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

Don't have friends. Problem solved.

[–] tim2zg 10 points 1 year ago

Element has bridges to some of the services

[–] hoya@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can just use Matrix with bridges

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[–] clot27@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

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.

[–] preasket@lemy.lol 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wdym "boring", what do you want a messenger app to do? It does what it's there for and it does it well.

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[–] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] sag@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Too much relatable

[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Schildichat > Element

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[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the middle one?

[–] lordgoose@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Element. It's a popular client for Matrix, which is a federated messaging platform (similar to lemmy and mastodon) with different instances.

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[–] dog_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Beeper!

[–] Roccobot@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Element, one of the few (only?) entirely open source, encrypted, and federated chat platforms out there.

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