I asked if people chose iPhone for the blue bubbles elsewhere a couple days ago, and while there was some good discourse on that post, the blue bubbles definitely also came up as a reason.

In my experience, when people find out my texts are green, they oftentimes would rather switch to a different platform altogether like Instagram or just not text at all.

Is this actually a deal-breaker in friendships out there?

  • @Infinity13English
    8•1 year ago

    I don’t care much about iMessage. All the people I know who are not an iPhone users use facebook messenger and cry about how bad quality sending pictures and videos are. But do nothing to change that. Thats the problem. I was going though hell to convince my girlfriend to use Signal to chat with me. Because she is an Android user. I hate FB, Insta, WhatsApp and all that stuff.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve been looking for a while for an app to switch to. All those messenger apps sucks so much. They all seems to be going to shit everyday we use them.

      Should I try Signal ?

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          Signal uses the same E2E encryption as WhatsApp and is also not Open-Source. One could argue that not being owned by Meta makes it inherently more private, to which I would somewhat agree.

          The most private Messaging-App would be some kind of federated Chat, like Jabber or Matrix, that you or a collection of family/friends can self-host.

          Unfortunately, nobody uses those ¯\(ツ)/¯

          • @dustyDataEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            You can bridge Matrix to almost anything. I’ve been looking on how to do it myself. Apparently it’s relatively seamless.

      • @Infinity13English
        2•1 year ago

        I like it the most. You can argue if its privacy friendly, but i like the fact that it doesnt collect data linked to me as Apple App Store shows. Then check whatsapp or fb messenger how much your data it collects.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•1 year ago

          Yeah, that’s a problem with Meta and Alphabet. Everything collects so much data. I pretty much disconnected myself from Google (at least, the most I can with an Android phone and a gmail address). I’m always looking for ways to do better.

          Facebook and Messenger is a pain to uninstall with all the people using it. That’s like my only link with some family member.