How do you send the majority of your mobile messages?
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Missing Option (Score:5, Insightful)
Congrats. (Score:2)
You win. :-)
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Definitely.
Let's see... (Score:4, Interesting)
iMessage (Apple)
Facebook Messenger (Facebook)
Instagram (Facebook)
WhatsApp (Facebook)
WeChat (Jina!)
Telegram (only sensible/Cowboy Neil choice)
I'll take either the first or the last, please.
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It wasn't exactly *bad,* but it also wasn't better than encrypted XMPP+SIP with phone numbers for usernames in a proprietary wrapper, which is what it is. But it's absolutely true that it would've been better if it hadn't been bought out by a flagrantly monopolist surveillance-capitalism megacorp.
Re: Let's see... (Score:3)
Skype wasn't listed as an option.
But I use SMS anyway.
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Line
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What about... (Score:4, Interesting)
Hangouts?
Re:What about... (Score:5, Funny)
Did you mean Meet? Or Allo? Or Duo? Or perhaps Wave?
What about RCS?
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no, that may be what YOU mean, but I meant what I said: Google Hangouts.
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When I Meet Duo I say Allo then I Wave and go back to Hangouts
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With Google Fi, that's almost exclusively what I use. Either I know people with a Google Email address who use hangouts or I do SMS via hangouts. I wish they'd like improve hangouts instead of planning on killing it at some point in the future :/
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Yep, despite not really getting much love from Google, it's still been working strong for over a decade
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Element on Matrix.org (Score:2)
Re: Element on Matrix.org (Score:2)
Just run a damn ejabberd, like a sane human!
Re: Element on Matrix.org (Score:2)
The best would be if each person on Earth published their own chat protocol and reference implementation.
We'd have some peace and quiet in our lives yet be perfectly capable of contacting anyone if we want to bad enough. Maybe only Asimov's Solarians would appreciate this kind of utopia.
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Put your grandma on Signal, and your professional group on a hosted Element Matrix Services instance. Good enough for France...
XMPP (Jabber) (Score:3)
Whats not to like end to end OMEMO encrypted anonymous chat
Re: XMPP (Jabber) (Score:2)
Seconded. OMEMO does not require permanent listening on a port on a running device, right? Which was the one thing stopping it from being successful on mobile, and solved by Moxie.
Also: Federation! Just like e-mail. Need I say more?
Sadly, the criminal leeches preferred a model of walled gardens of lock-in. I would have made it a capital crime. Sadly, the deciders still print out the Internet (or use iDevice(s|-likes), which is the current equivalent and same level of competence.)
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Me and my relatives are using XMPP. Because I'm to lazy to setup and admin a server myself I've paid a 10 users license of conversations server. It's running under a subdomain of my own second level domain. All my relatives are happy with this solution (except one that is still searching for an usable iOS client).
The current state of XMPP cannot be compared to the one a few years ago. It won't draw your battery anymore and notifications are shown instantly. It's quite usable now.
Both were SMS (Score:1)
Both mobile messages I've grudgingly sent this year have been SMS messages.
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"Now get off my lawn you damn kids!"
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...and take your emojis with you :)
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I think I last sent message I sent on a mobile device was in 2016, and it was an SMS.
I have purposely stayed away from cellphone messaging and unnecessary apps after having prevented a texting woman from being run-over by a train, some twelve years ago or so.
I find the subsequent years' increase in number of iZombies to be unnerving.
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Both mobile messages I've grudgingly sent this year have been SMS messages.
Most of the mobile messages I've "sent" were voice mail. I'm old/old-fashion. It's a phone, so I mostly use it to make actual calls.
Missing option (Score:5, Insightful)
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me too
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I wished Signal didn't require a phone #.
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I just use my landline # or Google Voice for a tablet. It can validate using a voice call for the landline.
But yeah, I'd prefer not to have it associated with a PSTN.
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Uh, it says it's out? Or am I confused? Also, "To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone." I don't want to use the phone. :(
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WeChat is listed as an option but not Signal. What the hell is going on around here?! News for Nerds huh...
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LINE is supposed to be international? (Score:2)
Mostly I use the LINE app. The parent company is actually Korean, but LINE is supposed to be a highly international project. Based on my experience, I can definitely say "Not so much." LOTS of features there. IF you are fluent in Japanese. In English, a few of the top menus will appear in English.
One of the interesting features of LINE is called Open Chat. Basically mobile messages in a group of participants. Does not scale well, and the search features are poor, but the translator bot is surprisingly good.
Prefer Sessile Messaging (Score:1)
I don't send anything from my mobile tracking/datatheft device.
I use email from a desktop, secured.
Obviously, I am 'Not Of The Body'.
Discord (Score:3, Interesting)
Why not combine the 3 Facebook apps to add Discord, Slack, MS Teams, and Hangouts?
Poll didn't specify work vs play... so I assume non-work uses.
Hangouts mostly, side order of Signal (Score:2)
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Hangouts also works on Android 4.1, and presumably, on 4.0, too. While I have tried data-based audio/video on Hangouts once or twice, then audio/video do not seem to work on any of these versions of Android. (This could be due to having
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Same here. We all use it because it works well, and it doesn't require a phone number so it's on our tablets and every laptop/desktop/phone (we use old androids with Lineage as basic internet terminals).
slack (Score:1)
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WhatsApp dross (Score:1)
I got annoyed with WhatsApp, and disabled it. There was just so much dross. It got to the point where I missed an important message from the hospital, due to the amount of clutter. SMS does me fine now, for my important contacts. I actually find writing texts on a touch-screen keyboard a bit of a pain. Perhaps there is something wrong with my fingers. I do not know how people can spend all day glued to their mobiles. Maybe I am just too old or something.
Missing option: (Score:2)
I don't have a mobile device so I don't sent mobile messages...
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This.... neither do I.
I did answer other because I have used Pidgin on my desktop for messaging (when I still worked for a living, but that was over five years ago now).
Not just majority, all of them (Score:1)
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Re: Not just majority, all of them (Score:2)
VOIP (Score:1)
No Signal? Is this poll a joke? (Score:2)
WTF is wrong with you? Do you live behind the moon, or is this your agenda? Seriously.
NSA messanger (Score:2)
Signal (Score:2)
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Same, except I never send MMS.
Electronic mail (Score:1)
So many still use SMS? (Score:1)
I'm surprised by the high percentage of SMS!
If I send an SMS I get puzzled replies
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Only from Apple Fanboys who think that nothing exists outside of iMessage.
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I'm surprised by the high percentage of SMS!
If I send an SMS I get puzzled replies
Here, it would get "Ewwww, a green texter!" as a comment.
Signal (Score:1)
Signal not in list???? (Score:4)
Email (Score:2)
signal. (Score:4)
Signal should be an option
Other for me (Score:2)
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Some of us have progressed beyond this ancient technology, and now use tin cans on a string.
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missing option: RCS (Score:4, Informative)
By default I am using RCS [wikipedia.org] with the Android Messages application, as well as all my family and people I know of. If no data then you can click on the message and send the message by SMS.
I'm really concerned about my Nokia N900 (Score:2)
Within just the last week it no longer recognizes the SIM card. I've tried cleaning the contacts on both the card and phone but that hasn't helped. The card being under the battery makes that a pain because you have to go through the setup routine with every reboot. I've gotten a good 10 years of service out of this device and I would hate to have to replace it with some lessor phone that doesn't have a slider QWERTY keyboard and replaceable battery. I'm even willing to forego data ability as long as I can
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You can try this: Plaster a thin layer of scotch tape on top of the SIM card (not on the side where the electric contacts are), then push it in with the tape, and then see if it works.
It's also possible, that your SIM card is so old, that it's unable to receive a background update from the ope
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Thanks for the input. I had already tried putting a piece of paper between the battery and the sim card. I doubt the card is locked since I never set up a pin. I'm waiting for a friend to loan me one of her old phones to test the card. She brought one today but the sim slot in that phone was much smaller than my card. It's really a shame that the majority of people think of a nice piece hardware as a throwaway product.
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I retired my N900 like 3 years ago, I'm on a Fxtec Pro1 now. The battery isn't so easily swappable but it is somewhat replaceable, and the life is so good I rarely run it below 60%.
I'd like to limit the battery's maximum charge level to extend its life, I've found that the Battery Charge Limit app isn't stable enough to rely on (could crash/exit and leave the battery discharging even though the phone is plugged in), next I may have to try ACC.
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Oh and here's another possible option:
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Thanks, I'm signed up for updates and keeping an eye their progress.
Google Voice (Score:1)
iMessage and avoiding Teams (Score:2)
Mostly iMessage right now. Work is pushing Teams on us in an annoying way. I’ve avoided putting it on my phone but...
smoke signals (Score:1)
Thanks for this website (Score:1)
All the best (Score:1)
mobile email app (Score:1)
Harrier pigeon (Score:4, Funny)
Signal (Score:1)
Threema (Score:2)
No mention of threema? That's what me and my family use. Swiss based - pretty equivalent to Whatsapp without the facebook links.
Line (Score:2)
mobile message? (Score:2)
Slack
Discord
Spark
IRC
Don't (Score:2)
Not by choice (Score:2)
Signal (Score:2)
Although I said SMS (Score:2)
Like many people here (possibly most), I also use others, including
Messenger Lite keeps telling me that my phone is up to having a "better experience" with the full product. I'm not sure what the difference or advantage is. Does anyone here know?
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Messenger Lite keeps telling me that my phone is up to having a "better experience" with the full product. I'm not sure what the difference or advantage is. Does anyone here know?
More profits for Facebook, cell carriers, and energy companies due to increased data collection and energy usage, and probably some other stuff too.
Voice (Score:2)
Wait those are people? (Score:2)
I though my fancy phone was just bored and horny over on bit-ly
Signal (Score:2)
I use signal. End to end encryption for the win.