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I'd recommend just regular texting, but if for whatever reason you can't/don't want to the. matrix should work, it's basically foss discord.
Why would you recommend texting as an alternative?
Otherwise you donβt get all operators being able to read your messages, all the vulnerabilities of SS7 (so not only your operator, any random dude with experience can read your messages)
So many advantages!
But it is compatible with iChat that it is what really matters, really π
not as an alternative to Whatsapp, I mean not bothering with an alternative to texting. there is no need for something like Whatsapp because everything it does is already part of just texting normally. Whatsapp is a texting alternative, and as such is pointless.
Texting doesnβt do end-to-end encryption though, which is a dealbreaker for many.
sure but if Whatsapp was in consideration security clearly isn't.