I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.

  • myusernameis@lemmy.ca
    5·
    7 months ago

    Random hot take, I’m at least grateful that my wife and I use an app that none of our friends use. Removes the “oh shit did I send that to the wrong person” panic.

  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works
    2·
    7 months ago

    Somebody please tell me what’s wrong with just texting? Why did half the world decide MMS needed to be replaced with a proprietary app? It works, everyone has it and there’s no confusion. Unless you are concerned about privacy or something, why not just text?

    Edit: MMS not SMS. I didn’t understand the difference.

    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      what’s wrong with just texting

      If you have friends in another country, it might cost a quarter every time you send a message.

      In regions of the world (e.g. Europe, and a lot of Asia) where some countries are the size of a large city (or perhaps the entire country is one city), that’s a problem. You’d be sending international texts all day every day.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      7 months ago

      Wait until everyone and their dogs gets back to MMS…
      You know how expensive they were during the upcoming of WhatsApp? Germany paid 0,80€ (at the time. Though the price is probably not much different during the early iPhone/Android 2.3 times) per picture. Compare that to the amount of stuff sent today and at the time you will probably pay 5€ per day just to get some things across.

      Source: https://www.derstandard.at/story/1747665/deutschland-hohe-preise-fuer-mms-verderben-das-geschaeft

  • Clot@lemm.ee
    01·
    7 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.

  • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml
    01·
    7 months ago

    Do not have Instagram and FB Messenger. Discord and WhatsApp are sandboxed, permission restricted and firewalled.

    Signal is a fucking desert despite converting so many contacts. Nobody uses it in the past few years.