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?

  • @[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.