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Chat Apps (kbin.run)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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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[-] blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 points 8 months ago

I didn't known Skype still existed and i thought I was getting old.

Sorry dude.

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[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

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

[-] Zacryon@feddit.de 11 points 8 months ago

Don't have friends. Problem solved.

[-] arran4@aussie.zone 10 points 8 months ago

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 10 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.

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[-] Wilzax@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

"I only talk to other nerds" basically

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[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 8 points 8 months ago

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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[-] clot27@lemm.ee 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

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[-] tim2zg@infosec.pub 10 points 8 months ago

Element has bridges to some of the services

[-] hoya@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago

You can just use Matrix with bridges

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[-] sag@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

Too much relatable

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[-] dog_@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Beeper!

[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 8 points 8 months ago

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

[-] darkphotonstudio@beehaw.org 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[-] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 7 points 8 months ago

What is the middle one?

[-] lordgoose@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 8 months ago

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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[-] Roccobot@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

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

[-] koncertejo@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

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

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