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

[–] angleangel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You can bridge to all of the apps in the image from Matrix

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[–] ThePJN@sopuli.xyz 56 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 12 points 8 months ago

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

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i really fucking hate discord.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be proprietary. Fucking capitalism.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 45 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

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[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 22 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Matrix and bridges

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[–] Jedi@bolha.forum 21 points 8 months ago

Wait, do you guys have friends?

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago

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

[–] JIMMERZ@lemm.ee 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] chocosoldier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 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.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Remember E-Mail, everyone?

[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] nick@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just stop using the spyware ones?

[–] mac@infosec.pub 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

That leaves you with element, signal and telegram?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Oh, where to begin. Telegram is wild. It may not be spyware in the traditional sense, but they've already handed over data to the Indian government, left a telephone number scraping vulnerability open for the Iranian government, and gotten caught with "the most backdoor looking bug" with their unwisely handmade encryption algorithm.

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[–] figjam@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Have friends
Talk to them.

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[–] tsugu@slrpnk.net 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Micromot@feddit.de 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 11 points 8 months ago

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

[–] darkphotonstudio 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 10 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.

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] hoya@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You can just use Matrix with bridges

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[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] clot27@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 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 8 months 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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[–] arran4@aussie.zone 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 8 points 8 months ago

Yeah... This 1000 times... It DOES bother me to install all that shit. What doesn't bother me? Installing a bridge on Matrix and having everything in one place. Hell I've even started adding matrix to my linux scripts. I get notifications about script status in dedicated spaces on my single chat window.

I'm literally SMS away from doing 100% of the chat clients I use for personal usage... And seriously debating on bridging teams for work usage.

I've even gotten my wife onboard. That, to me, speaks about how frustrated normal people are with having many different apps as well.

[–] Zacryon@feddit.de 8 points 8 months ago

Don't have friends. Problem solved.

[–] Pfnic@feddit.ch 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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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[–] tim2zg@infosec.pub 7 points 8 months ago

Element has bridges to some of the services

[–] sag@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago

Too much relatable

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What is the middle one?

[–] lordgoose@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] shadeless@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Which funnily enough, has bridges to Signal, Whatsapp, Discord, Telegram and some more, meaning you wouldn't have to have as many other clients installed to chat with contacts on those platforms

[–] Matomo@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I remember looking into that a while ago, but it's not like I can just instantly hook up my WhatsApp or Telegram account into that, right? I'd need a server to act as a bridge.