Telegram, for a singular, friend group chat. And the cool Amazon sales channels. Whatsapp for family and anything work related.
In order: Signal, SMS (stock app), and Matrix (element)
I mainly use WhatsApp. I have tried moving on from it, but it is too pervasive in my circles. If I stop using it I will miss too much, so for now I’ll stick to it.
I was able to convince 4-5 people in my close circle to use Signal. I hope more people will choose it.
Steam Friends
Whatsapp, Element and FB Messenger.
Signal (and RCS) for close friends and family, FB Messenger for uni stuff and work
I use Signal and Matrix for my daily messaging and Discord for gaming. I am very happy that most people are aware of Meta.
Telegram, Discord, and plain old sms.
Signal and telegram plus slack for work. Rarely I will use threema and Matrix.
In Japan, it’s LINE. Garbage app but the entire population uses it so.
Where I am WhatsApp is the go to for general communication as well as business. I also use discord for my extracurricular stuff and some game groups.
Wish Signal adoption was better here, but it hasn’t taken yet with WhatsApp being so widespread.
I prefer Signal, but have Whatsapp, FB Messenger, Slack, and Google Messages for everyone that doesn’t want to use it.
Also RIP Signal’s SMS feature, that was the gateway drug I was able to use to get people using it.
The confusion around messaging standards, even among the “non-normies” shows they made a good call removing SMS functionality from the app.
An average joe doesn’t distinguish between SMS, RCS, iMessage, Signal, Messenger, WhatsApp, Line, Kakaotalk, Instagram chat etc, it’s just “texting” to them. People were so confused about all these that even r/signal was full of posts “why does texting to iPhone still suck after installing signal?”. It was a daily thing, for whatever reason users didn’t understand that Signal fixed the blurry photos problem between iPhones and Android devices but ONLY when used Signal-to-Signal. Normal SMS/MMS texting was still limited by this technology. Or another thing, people though Signal made chatting free. Sure, if used for sending Signal messages and not SMS. SMS were still within your plan, so why would Signal suddenly make them free?
Telegram, group chat moved from WhatsApp to Signal but it’s too buggy that they hated it. Telegram has been good (privacy issues aside)
What sort of privacy issues has telegram had?
I use Discord and Instagram. I hate pretty much everything about the latter but everyone in my friend group uses it. I wish they still had that app with Instagram dms and nothing else.
WhatsApp. Some amount of Instagram chat. But that’s it.
