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Ripley_Tripley@lemmus.org 2 weeks ago Can someone easily merge from Google Messages to Signal? I’ve heard of signal and im also looking for another message alternative; more so for that and insta. Pixelfed is really catching my eye for insta.
fluckx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
How do you mean merge?
It’s basically another messenger.
Signal is a great app to replace your messenger with. Keep in mind that it doesn’t save whatever media you post there in your gallery.
Matrix is another solution, but you’d have to self host that. I have no experience with it.
Threema is a swiss app which I think was pretty privacy respecting as well? It doesn’t use phone numbers either IIRC.
Like Google unfortunately uses RCS and everyone i know uses RCS because either they have apple or are using Google messages with RCS. So if I was to go to Signal for example, would my chats transfer over or would I have to start over because RCS is not used?
fluckx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Signal used to do text messaging as well but they removed the feature. As they felt it was unclear when a message was fully encrypted ( signal message ) and when it wasnt ( text /RCS message ).
I don’t think there’s a privacy friendly chat app that also does RCS.