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8 votes
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SoftBank-controlled Yahoo Japan agrees to merge with Line Corp., creating a combined company worth about $30 billion
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Tutorial on how to enable RCS on any carrier/device with Android Messages
7 votes -
Facebook launches "Threads from Instagram", a new camera-first messaging app
5 votes -
Hong Kong protestors using Mesh messaging app China can't block: Usage up 3685%
23 votes -
Google delays classic Hangouts transition for G Suite until 2020
5 votes -
WhatsApp protocol decryption for chat manipulation and more
7 votes -
Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack
21 votes -
Absence of certain features in IRC considered a feature
24 votes -
China's border guards are installing malware onto the phones of travellers crossing its border
8 votes -
Google is enabling RCS independently of mobile operators in the UK and France this month
10 votes -
WeChat is watching
8 votes -
Telegram founder points to China hacking attack during Hong Kong protest
7 votes -
Bye-bye BBM: BlackBerry shuts down once-beloved messaging service
6 votes -
Snapchat employees abused data access to spy on users
11 votes -
Why WhatsApp will never be secure
16 votes -
The productivity pit: Work communication software like Teams, Slack, and Workplace were supposed to make us more productive. They haven’t.
10 votes -
We are back at square one of personal messaging
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal,...
I can't shake the dejavu feeling I'm getting using any kind of messaging these days. Today we have an awful lot of messaging apps, that are all roughly the same, with similar features - Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Riot, etc. This happened once already, at the dawn of 200X IM revolution that deprecated SMS for good we also had MSN, ICQ, GTalk, Jabber, etc. This also was a set of very similar personal messaging clients and protocols, similar in any way to each other. It all changed when the multi-protocol messaging apps came out - Pidgin, QiP, Miranda and others made it easy to gather all your contacts from various protocols in one place and to keep in touch with everyone. Shortly after Jabber transports were made so you could congregate all other accounts into one single XMPP account. Even N900 that came out in 2009 had the ability to gather various accounts into one single contact list.
I feel like right now with all the segmented IM apps it's a good time for something like this to happen again, and Telegram already has wat-bridge.
What are your thoughts on that topic? Do you think the history will repeat itself? Would a new federated formate like XMPP rise up?30 votes -
Which messenger(s) do you currently use? If you had your preference, what single messaging service would you prefer to use?
SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct, Signal, Wire, Wickr, Telegram, GroupMe, Viber, Threema, etc. There are dozens of competing messenger services out there, each of...
SMS, iMessage, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Instagram Direct, Signal, Wire, Wickr, Telegram, GroupMe, Viber, Threema, etc.
There are dozens of competing messenger services out there, each of which is either supported by or suffers from the network effect. Futhermore, each seems to come with its own pros and cons. I'm curious about not only people's current use, but where everyone thinks we are headed. As such, I have a few questions:
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Which messengers do you currently use at the moment? What are their advantages and disadvantages?
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If you could magically switch all of your contacts to be on one messaging service, which would it be and why?
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Do you think we'll ever see a realistic convergence of messaging, or are people destined to use different platforms for different contacts?
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Telegram now allows every Telegram user to delete any message in a private conversation from both sides
23 votes -
Telegram gets three million new signups during Facebook apps’ outage
7 votes -
Mark Zuckerberg: A Privacy-Focused Vision for Social Networking
20 votes -
The route of a text message, a love story
12 votes -
Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete your direct messages
4 votes -
Facebook plans to integrate WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger
35 votes -
Matrix 2018, a year in review
22 votes -
On ghost users and messaging backdoors
8 votes -
Google Hangouts for consumers will shut down in 2020
42 votes -
Signal technology preview: sealed sender
21 votes -
In Iran, state sanctioned messaging apps are the new hallmark of internet nationalisation
4 votes -
In test case, US fails to force Facebook to wiretap Messenger (voice) calls
9 votes -
WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton gives the inside story on #DeleteFacebook and why he left $850 million behind
20 votes -
The "Chatty" messaging app for Librem 5 (Linux phone) with SMS and XMPP support
16 votes -
I don't trust Signal
18 votes -
Facebook in talks with banks to add your financial information to Messenger
18 votes -
Public Telegram, private strife | The precarious future of messaging apps
3 votes -
Facebook chats from planning session of Unite The Right 2 have been leaked
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Why does Google have nine messaging services?
A sentence from this article on Ars Technica about the new Android Messages web interface really jumped out at me: Android Messages started as a simple SMS app, but, with the Web client, it is...
A sentence from this article on Ars Technica about the new Android Messages web interface really jumped out at me:
Android Messages started as a simple SMS app, but, with the Web client, it is turning into Google's ninth messaging service after (deep breath) Google Talk, Google Voice, Buzz, Google+ Messenger, Hangouts, Spaces, Allo, and the Slack-like Hangouts Chat.
Nine different chat services from a single company is just wild. How did Google let such an important aspect of the Android platform become such a mess, and what should Google do about it?
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What's your favourite emoji?
There're so many options—I'm particularly impartial to ⛹♀️ right now because I've never actually seen it used.
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Instagram feed algorithm seems to take into account your WhatsApp correspondence.
I've been trying to tame tracking from services like Facebook. I installed many ad blockers and tracker blockers on all of my browser, I don't install FB app on my phone, but I still install...
I've been trying to tame tracking from services like Facebook. I installed many ad blockers and tracker blockers on all of my browser, I don't install FB app on my phone, but I still install Instagram app and WhatsApp.
Something creepy (but totally expected) just happened to me. I haven't really been in contact with a friend of mine for quite some time, and we finally chatted again using WhatsApp. Not long after that I opened Instagram, and her photo was the first one I saw haha. It's funny because I don't think I've seen any photos from her in quite some time before this on my IG feed.
Might just be a coincidence, but with all discussion about how creepy they're trying to make their platform as sticky as possible, I wouldn't be surprised if IG's feed algorithm do take into account your correspondence on WhatsApp as well (I live in a country where everyone uses WhatsApp).
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How the black point message crashes Android apps
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WhatsApp founder plans to leave after broad clashes with parent Facebook
6 votes