• woodenskewer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Maybe it’s because I don’t talk to that many people for it to seem significant, but is there an issue with just sending someone a standard text message?

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          1 year ago

          Those are not private at all, whatsapp, as a protocol (so basically xmpp) is pretty good using E2E. Facebook/Meta collects your metadata, but not the messages.

        • Noblesavage@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          “Text message”? What are we - barbarians?

          Seriously though, using text messages these days means that inevitably you will encounter the green vs blue issue. Android and Apple phones don’t play nice with their text messages. Gods help you if you ever get into a group text message thread with multiple Android and Apple phones. Anytime an Apple user reacts to a message it’s sent as a separate text message, “John 🤣 to ‘Check out this meme’”

          At least with WhatsApp it puts everyone in the same texting playground.

          • alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml
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            1 year ago

            This is such a bummer. Recently one of my friends started considering iPhone just because of this blue/green issue. I hate how big corps are trying their best to f*ck their users

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            1 year ago

            laughs in beeper (iMessage on Android, RCS on iPhone, and other chat apps like WhatsApp and signal over Matrix bridges)

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              1 year ago

              Saving this for later investigation. The idea of having a “middle man” for supposedly E2E encrypted messages seems skeevy to me though. Is it all open source?

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            1 year ago

            The problem with texts is you cannot leave a group chat. So you’re at the mercy of the group to create a new one or forget about the chat.

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        10 months ago

        Hey there! Totally get where you’re coming from. The struggle is real when all your homies are still on WhatsApp. It’s like that one check on WhatsApp has become the universal symbol of connection, right? 😅 But hey, change is constant, and who knows, maybe the squad will make the jump together someday. Until then, we’ll ride the WhatsApp wave! 🚀