I only use it because there’s no way I could convince my friends and family to move to anything else.
There’s no point in switching to another app if I then literally couldn’t communicate with the people I need to through it.
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Signal is the best.
I don’t think it’s really a chat app. Isn’t it just a text replacement? Or does it just use that number as your ID to use it? I have it, but only ever used it with one guy.
It has lots of nice features over SMS: read/typing notifications, image/video support, proper groups, message expiration. I think that makes it a chat app
I was implying mms as well. Didn’t know about the other additions. I only knew one person with it, and we haven’t spoken in years.
I have all those features with Google Messages (as long as I’m not talking to an iPhone user).
Signal’s UI has improved a lot though. Still I only know one person that uses it.
I wish people would stop using the Crowder meme template.
Same. We even have a nice alternative. https://postimg.cc/rzvDYFXW
From now on, I’ll adhere to the “Calvin: Change my mind” meme format. Thank you for your input. 🫡
Oh shit that is him! I never even noticed before. Major ick.
How come?
He’s a right wing piece of shit who constantly says and does the most unhinged shit. Don’t really follow him, but from the top of my head, he mocked George Floyd’s death, he mocks trans people on a regular basis…
Why?
Because he’s an asshole. A grifting asshole to be specific.
Oh i get it now. The person in the photo is an asshole in real life. It only took me a day of wondering why would someone be an asshole for not liking a meme template 😅
SMS is IE, Whatsapp is Chrome, and Signal is Firefox. Use Signal/Firefox.
What is Beeper/Matrix? Although I’m from the golden age of Trillian/MirandaIM 😆
Steven Crowder is a garbage human and doesn’t deserve a meme template
Nah. SMS and iMessage are the IE of messaging. Unsafe and locked in.
Steven Crowder is the wife abuser of the meme world.
Except it does nearly everything any other messaging app does, so there really is no need to force a switch. Unlike Internet Explorer, that used outdated rendering engine making it both slow and buggy, it was unsafe as it used ActiveX, didn’t support ad-blockers it actually broke or didn’t open most new website.
Op thinks only the USA exists apparently
I’m from india
Told
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I stole this meme from a comment🫣
Whatsapp is still supported
I never have any problems Whatsapp. My messages get sent and I receive messages no problem.
Yeah the real problem is giving Facebook any control at all over your messaging experience.
Matrix or Signal only for me. nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states, sms is simply insecure in every way, and telegram has very suspicious roots imo, along with a lack of e2ee and a terrible ui.
signal is the most secure option and matrix is federated making it the most “open” option.
“Nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states”
Man I wish I had your friends. The only non-iMessage app I can get everyone to use is WhatsApp. And I don’t have an iPhone.
I mean, I’m not in any better of a camp. all of my friends refuse to get off discord.
I’m in the states, I know loads of people using whatsapp. I’m in several group chats.
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I’ve literally never met anyone that even knows what it is, although I thought it would be obvious just based on how people talk that I was speaking anecdotally and not from literal statistics. I come across Facebook messenger somewhat commonly but never Whatsapp.
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it’s a lose lose regardless lmao
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congrats you’re an outlier I suppose. I’ve only met maybe 5 people that know what Whatsapp is. telegram is marginally more popular but only because a lot of drug dealers use it (they would have better luck with matrix or even signal)
I’m surprised with the reactions to this. The only people I use whatsapp with are all outside the US. It’s discord/telegram/sms for everyone in the US and it’s miserable.
It has become better, though.
- Multi-device (without your primary device needing an internet connection)
- Deleting messages
- Editing messages
- Reactions
- Larger file uploads…
I’ve somehow never used WhatsApp.
I wish I could say the same but if you want to date you have to here. I despise and absolutely hate how you have to you use a phone number to register. And then every contact you have can add you to a group so everyone there now can have your number.
I’ve had a stalker before and I hate that stuff like that makes it trivially easy for her to get my number again. I literally can’t understand how women are okay with absolutely shitty systems like this. I really can’t repeat enough how much I strongly hate WhatsApp and how everyone else thinks it’s so good for exactly the reason that I hate it. It’s too easy to send messages despite me never giving you my number to begin with. SMS is the same but you can’t add me to a group without my permission and share my number with a group of people I don’t know.
How though
No idea. It’s just not a platform anyone in my life has used in a manner that dragged me in.
Cool
Surely it can’t be so popular it’s inconceivable to you that someone hasn’t used it.
It is. To stay in contact with anyone you need whatsapp.
Well I’m glad that isn’t happening here, because I would just have to miss everything.
Technically, unironically, its latest desktop version for Windows is better than expected. It’s no longer based on Electron or whatever, consumes less resources than before and works adequately.
That said, I still don’t like it.
Right click on .config file, left click on show more options, left click on edit with Notepad++.
Fuck you Microsoft!
