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9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps(9to5google.com)

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Parastie@lemmy.world
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This is entirely a USA problem. No one in Europe uses iMessage as their primary messaging app.

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naught@sh.itjust.works
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What do they use? Whatsapp? Wechat? Signal?

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sparky@lemmy.federate.cc@lemmy.federate.cc
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Depends on the country but mostly WhatsApp followed in second place by Telegram

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nudny ekscentryk@szmer.info
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Over here it’s Facebook Messenger, followed by Telegram and only then WhatsApp. Signal is niche stuff for nerds such as yours truly.

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Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee
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Where I live it’s mostly whatsapp

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Illuminostro@lemmy.world
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Edgelord Easel

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DampCanary@lemmy.world
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Viber

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qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee
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Eastern Europe, perhaos. Not really anywhere else in europe.

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GenEcon@lemm.ee
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Germany uses Whatsapp and Signal. Whatsapp for the older generation, Signal for the younger ones. But almost everyone has both. Telegram is a niche messenger for conspiracy theorists and alt-righters, because it’s russian and those people love Russia.

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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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Yea, that’s totally why people I know use Telegram / 🤦‍♂️

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woelkchen@lemmy.world
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Telegram is a niche messenger for conspiracy theorists and alt-righters, because it’s russian and those people love Russia.

Telegram is a nice messenger with good usability and funny stickers. The provider also doesn’t hand out user data to authorities willy nilly, so it’s popular among privacy-minded people of all political affiliations.

FTFY

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berber@lemmy.chaos.berlin
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i live in germany and to me telegram doesn’t feel niche at all.

a lot of younger people use it a bit like discord, like for group stuff. organizing (like e.g. political activism), finding apartents in berlin, and yes, getting drugs as well. also some worklplaces use it (which i think is terrible). it is also preferred by a lot of people to communicate via telegram over signal or whatsapp in situations where people don’t want to give away their number, like online dating.

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HactaiiMiju@lemmynsfw.com
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That’s a wildly generalizing and inaccurate statement

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GenEcon@lemm.ee
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In what country do you live? I live in Germany and not even iPhone users use iMessage.

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HactaiiMiju@lemmynsfw.com
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Use your reading eyes and understanding brain again and reread what I said

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Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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Not a problem for me lmao. No one I talk to uses apple products because we have self respect

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TK420@lemmy.world
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And I refuse to use any Facebook products, so what’s app can fuck right off

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