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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For better or worse you happen to be using the one messaging app that is broadly agreed to be worse than iMessage.

Signal and Telegram are far superior, even putting aside the most glaring flaws of the other two.

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spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Signal/Telegram are not very common where I’m at. I have Signal, nobody in my contacts does.

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’ve successfully converted a spouse, which I don’t think is out of the question.
  
  I’ve also converted my main friend group, but appreciate that’s insurmountable for a lot of people - genuinely, people hate change after all. I’m lucky to have a lot of friends who work in tech and are receptive to trying new things.
  
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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’d say Telegram isn’t superior. It’s default encryption is nowhere near iMessage.

And if you step up the encryption, you lose group chats.

For it’s flaws, iMessage is a very good solution, one that Signal was emulating for a while.

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’m not criticising the UX of iMessage for Apple to Apple comms. It’s solid, and was leader-in-class for a very long time.
  
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Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Its convenience. Why have both of us download a new app strictly for pictures when she is already on Facebook, and I have a dusty one with no posts for a decade. Plus getting someone in the US to download a 3rd party messaging app is like asking them to respond to the Nigerian Prince for his offers.

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Fair enough. It’s kind of an oxymoron to worry about the trust of a given 3rd party messaging app while using products from a known, wide scale, repeated privacy intruder like Meta, but you have what you need in terms of convenience so I won’t make a further case for an alternative.
  
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  - Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Believe me, I know. I wouldn’t be using it if the people I need it for would switch. But people don’t give a shit here. I gave up trying to move apps. The rest of my shit is arch linux and de googled. This is the last hold out.
    
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