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Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by nihilx7E3 to c/technology

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tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

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[–] encode8062@lemmy.one 50 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Please use Signal. It is a great alternative!

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Surprisingly it's been really easy to get people on signal, haven't had to really try convincing people at all just explain what it is and they get it

[–] cy4n@waveform.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

still can't get my friends and family on it, have to use messenger which is quite the pain lol

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Way I've always sold it is "it's basically identical to WhatsApp except without Facebook spying on you" then I also show them the cool gradient feature for messages

[–] snowbell 1 points 1 year ago

gradient feature?

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