I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
Don’t have friends. Problem solved.
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.
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
Kind of ironic considering that with Matrix…
- Forward secrecy is kinda hosed
- they store metadata permanently on their servers by design
- A ton of stuff that would otherwise be invisible and signal is visible in your Matrix homeserver, including permanent history of all group membership
- Your data does not belong to you, and that’s how the server is built to treat it, e.g.
- GDPR deletion is nonexistent (it won’t delete your username or your messages, making it less effective than on Discord, let alone Signal)
… Etc.
Ironically, older federated messaging systems like XMPP might be better by coincidence. Message archiving was an optional addition and some servers, such as the popular Riseup one, do not implement it.
Yeah, fair. It can’t delete your messages to the extent a centralized system, and that’s an indication of the lack of centralized control? It’s a different threat model I think many find satisfying (though perhaps not most).
All those points are about how one server communicates with itself. Federation doesn’t factor into it
huh, yeah that’s fair i did not actually notice that :/
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.