Maybe it's because I don't talk to that many people for it to seem significant, but is there an issue with just sending someone a standard text message?

[–] lunicoDee@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those are not private at all, whatsapp, as a protocol (so basically xmpp) is pretty good using E2E. Facebook/Meta collects your metadata, but not the messages.

[–] ultra@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago

_meta_data

[–] Noblesavage@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"Text message"? What are we - barbarians?

Seriously though, using text messages these days means that inevitably you will encounter the green vs blue issue. Android and Apple phones don't play nice with their text messages. Gods help you if you ever get into a group text message thread with multiple Android and Apple phones. Anytime an Apple user reacts to a message it's sent as a separate text message, "John 🤣 to 'Check out this meme'"

At least with WhatsApp it puts everyone in the same texting playground.

[–] ultra@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

laughs in beeper (iMessage on Android, RCS on iPhone, and other chat apps like WhatsApp and signal over Matrix bridges)

[–] WarMarshalEmu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Saving this for later investigation. The idea of having a "middle man" for supposedly E2E encrypted messages seems skeevy to me though. Is it all open source?

[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

This is such a bummer. Recently one of my friends started considering iPhone just because of this blue/green issue. I hate how big corps are trying their best to f*ck their users

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Text messages cost money and only support text

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And before someone says MMS, NO. Just, no. I never want to use that shit again.

[–] ultra@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

RCS go brrr

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

Too little too late imo

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nobody here uses text messages anymore. It's just old tech I guess

[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The problem with texts is you cannot leave a group chat. So you're at the mercy of the group to create a new one or forget about the chat.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I didn't even think of that downside but yeah, that sucks

[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

exactly. We are 6 guys, me and one other friend tried a lot, but just couldn't :/

[–] maaha@bolha.forum 1 points 1 year ago

Hey there! Totally get where you're coming from. The struggle is real when all your homies are still on WhatsApp. It's like that one check on WhatsApp has become the universal symbol of connection, right? 😅 But hey, change is constant, and who knows, maybe the squad will make the jump together someday. Until then, we'll ride the WhatsApp wave! 🚀