I use messaging apps exclusively with my Android using friends and family. Can’t get my Apple using friends and family to use them. iMessage or the highway. Can’t take away the one wee thing that feeds their ego. Fuck everybody else right!? Maddening.
Outside north America most people tend to use a messaging app like WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, etc.
I use messaging apps exclusively with my Android using friends and family. Can’t get my Apple using friends and family to use them. iMessage or the highway. Can’t take away the one wee thing that feeds their ego. Fuck everybody else right!? Maddening.
My phone can already send texts. Why the fuck would I install spyware to be able to also send texts?
Because SMS is severely insecure.
Use Signal, it’s secure and isn’t spyware.
Signal is a honeypot. Use Matrix.org
Imagine saying e2ee messaging apps are spyware while SMS sending plaintext. Learn before you talk.