What kind of messaging apps do you use?
I have been cleaning my phone - removing Google Services, Google Account and replacing it with alternatives. Strangely, I do still have many very different messaging app. If I count correctly, there is Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, Telegram, Signal, Viber and also two local apps TakeUp and Mastadon. I am more and more returning back to SMS messages and normal encrypted e-mails.
What do you use most and is it normal, to have so many messaging apps and using them all for different people groups?
wait, you're actually using encrypted email? Is it for work or you use it with friends/family too?
I've never received an encrypted email in my entire life.
Encrypted like Proton Email - it means they don't read my emails by default like Google or Microsoft
Email and sometimes irc. And old fashioned sms when needed.
IRC is still alive?
IRC will never die! I mean, it probably will eventually. It's still fairly popular with Linux users, and even stil preinstalled on some distros
Are there some websites or lists of interesting channels?
Surprised no one mentioned simplex yet. So whatsapp, matrix (personal server, for family and as a bridge to whatsapp), and simplex.
What is Simplex?
I'm an American with an Android phone. I use Google Messages for SMS because no one uses anything but iMessages or SMS here. It blows ass.
No Telegram or Signal or Mastadon? That's little bit strange, considering the amount of USA surveillance 👀