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.

  • encode8062English
    15·
    vor 3 Jahren

    Please use Signal. It is a great alternative!

    • Racle@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4·
      vor 3 Jahren

      Signal is great. But it’s so hard to convince anyone in my family to use it as almost everyone here (in Finland) uses whatsapp to communicate.

      But I have few groups in signal with my IT-related friends.

    • flashgnash@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      vor 3 Jahren

      Surprisingly it’s been really easy to get people on signal, haven’t had to really try convincing people at all just explain what it is and they get it

      • cy4n@waveform.social
        English
        1·
        vor 3 Jahren

        still can’t get my friends and family on it, have to use messenger which is quite the pain lol

    • dxcz@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      vor 3 Jahren

      Got my immediate family on it. Miss some features when forced elsewhere.