Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family
Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family
While Messages and RCS is how Google wants you to message friends, Google Chat also fits that role and the company today reminded us...
tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.
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I always used to use Hangouts as my default chat app for friends. We had a big DnD group chat on it. But we migrated to WhatsApp when Google said they were going to kill hangouts and never looked back.
Why would I trust Google with my chats when they constantly abandon/kill off their best tools. We've now moved to Signal and I'm expecting to stay there for a long time.
@herriott101 @nihilx7E3 Signal is still a walled garden that does not respect user freedom. If you want something permanent I would suggest the internet standard, XMPP.
Google fairly successfully managed to kill that. It's gone from Internet standard to a niche thing with everyone doing their own thing now.
I've seen a lot of buzz about XMPP lately (well, mostly in relation to P92 and corps killing FOSS projects). Beyond it being a comm protocol, I don't really know much about it. Is it still in use?
@cityboundforest Yes, there is still an quite active community around it: https://joinjabber.org/