tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.
tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo’s) successor, google chat.
I always used to use Hangouts as my default chat app for friends. We had a big DnD group chat on it. But we migrated to WhatsApp when Google said they were going to kill hangouts and never looked back.
Why would I trust Google with my chats when they constantly abandon/kill off their best tools. We’ve now moved to Signal and I’m expecting to stay there for a long time.
Have you tried Telegram? I’ve slowly been moving over to it more and more with my contacts, and I find it’s a much nicer experience than WA. Especially with handling files and attachments, which I could see being useful in D&D.
Agree. My group is on Telegram, and we love it. Excellent features, and the dev team is great.
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I’ve seen a lot of buzz about XMPP lately (well, mostly in relation to P92 and corps killing FOSS projects). Beyond it being a comm protocol, I don’t really know much about it. Is it still in use?
My go-to recommendation is Matrix. Fully federated, full e2ee support.
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Google fairly successfully managed to kill that. It’s gone from Internet standard to a niche thing with everyone doing their own thing now.