Yeah, there was a nice period when Pidgin could easily handle all the chats. Then providers siloed their apps 🫤

Just never interact with anyone. Christ, it's not that hard people! (This comment doesn't count.)

i really fucking hate discord.

Why does EVERYTHING have to be proprietary. Fucking capitalism.

Friends don't make friends install chat apps (besides Signal)

I have 3/7 and I hate it. I wish signal never removed the ability to function as sms

Wait, do you guys have friends?

Spoken like a real android user. All my iPhone friends (and especially family) refuse to download any other app, they just complain that I physically can't download iChat.

Yeah yeah we got it you have multiple friends quit bragging about it now

A chat app for every friend and a launcher for every game. We live in a utopia.

Matrix and bridges

Random hot take, I'm at least grateful that my wife and I use an app that none of our friends use. Removes the "oh shit did I send that to the wrong person" panic.

Remember E-Mail, everyone?

I miss pidgin for the cross platform chat

We need a new Trillian or Adium. Fucking anti-interop gatekeepers.

Literally me.. I've 5/7 of these installed and even have Threema in addition. I don't need more than one Meta Inc product in my life though

I really miss how windows phone allowed other chat services to plug in to it, so that you could have a single chat app for all your contacts, but open the individual apps for advanced features.

Just stop using the spyware ones?

And if you have two phone numbers which you want to use for WhatsApp then you need to clone the damn app because they can't even make such basic functionality

1. Have friends
2. Talk to them.

After posting I realized an exported PNG is the same size and looks much better. Enjoy.

Are you even a true nerd if you have so many friends?

Am I too old that one of these should've been Skype?

I abandoned my chat to make a new one in Discord. Despite them complaining about Skype daily for years, suddenly they loved Skype.

Humans are silly. Either way, it's been Discord, Snapchat, and regular text for half a decade now.