I want to love the idea of a universal messaging app, but being on a waiting list with tens of thousands of other people for months has killed my excitement for it.
Never even heard of it
Just a commercialized Matrix server with some well-integrated bridges.
I got so interested in it because I’m old and miss Pidgin.
Me too, that was a great app.
I’m old too. For me it was Trillian.
Why don’t you set up a Matrix server with the bridges you use then you will get exactly that, one app to chat with every other chatting app.
I’m going to have to do some research on this. Down the rabbit hole I go…
I’m brutally lazy.
Good for you.
I’ve gotten access to it, tried it for all of 30 seconds, and immediately deleted after. For one, there is a difference between full app integration and “you can connect it through beeper”, which essentially removes any feature except for basic messaging. But the most egregious issue is that if you decide to try to use their iMessage service, they just host it on some random Apple hardware they have, guaranteeing absolutely 0 security
I waited for ~2 years to get onboard and just having the ability to use iMessage on my Pixel 6 has made it worthwile. Plus the tight integration with other services and being able to use it to sync SMS between devices is like Apple level. It’s probably not the best service for certain aspects (e.g. privacy, they say it’s E2E but who knows what their stack is), but the secret sauce that is the app just ties it all together so well. Plus, they have support built right into that app via a private Matrix Room and a REAL PERSON will respond to almost any query within a couple minutes. I accidentally sent a DM request to the CEO and he replied in like 3 minutes. If you want to skip the line I can give you my invite code so you can try it out.
Thank you kindly for the offer. After finding out about the. Invite system here, I was able to Google a code right away, so I’m in. Thanks!
Hey though, BTW, from the mobile app, do you know how to initiate a chat message to a signal group? I can only seem to do it by replying to an existing group post.
people are posting invite codes all the time, I found one after looking for about 10 minutes.
don’t really like it much though, and thankfully none of my friends use imessage.
I didn’t know it even had in invites. When I signed up, they just mentioned the waiting list. I just think it’s weird marketing to have such a huge wait list for so long. I’d almost rather just not hear about it until the wait list is realistically navigable.
Thank you for the invite heads up BTW, I appreciate it. Got it all up and running now.
I accidentally signed up with two different emails and got in within a week on both. You sure you signed up with a functioning email address?
Any of these jack-of-all-trades apps are never very good. There’s a reason why dedicated apps to a single messaging system requires so much work, there’s a lot to go into it.
I set it up all excitedly on my tablet and proceeded to never use it. And just wait til you see how bad it is on chromeOS. The fastest way to launch it is through command line.
You can use Element, Schildichat, Fluffychat, or anything else with it if you prefer. It’s just a Matrix server with some bridges and a fork of Element.
