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

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      1 day 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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        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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          22 hours 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.