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?
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.
“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.
laughs in beeper (iMessage on Android, RCS on iPhone, and other chat apps like WhatsApp and signal over Matrix bridges)
And before someone says MMS, NO. Just, no. I never want to use that shit again.
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.
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! 🚀
