Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ? Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough to make people switch to, that won’t have issues and send them running back to zucc

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    9 days ago

    What’s hard about signal? It’s easy to use, my friends and family aren’t tech savvy and they were using it in minutes and it has stuck ever since.

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      9 days ago

      I don’t consider it a “chat app” since it requires your phone number as an identifier. It has always been the equivalent of a texting app.

      I don’t consider anything that’s phone-first as a chat app. A chat app should be platform agnostic/available for all platforms. You can only get a desktop app for Signal by connecting it to your phone app.

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        9 days ago

        I can see your point. It is so ingrained in me to use a phone I forget that we didnt always do it that way. I shouldnt make the assumption everyone has a phone.

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        A chat app should be platform agnostic/available for all platforms.

        That’s simply not what a chat app is. A chat app is simply an app you use to chat with people, as the name suggests.