I don’t really like Apple, but once in a while they do the right thing. This comes from the App store’s new labels on apps.
Signal just has “Contact info” under the “Data NOT linked to you” category. This is just the phone number + contact discovery.
UPDATE
There’s another post adding telegram here. This is what it looks like:
Honestly, if getting people to get a jabber account wasnt such a pain that would still be my go to solution.
None of the other apps really do it for me. I ran matrix/element for a year or two, was way to unstable for daily use and impossible to get friends to migrate.
Signal has the benefit of incorporating SMS as well, but it’s been fairly hit or miss with message delivery for me and some friends.
Telegram works fine but isnt fully open source
Yeah, there’s no perfect solution, unfortunately.
If you don’t mind me asking, what issues specifically did you encounter with Element/Matrix? I’m trying to get my friends on Element and was under the impression that it’s good enough? Haven’t used it in a while though, so I could be wrong.
When I used it last the homeserver issues were to frequent. Delays in delivery, service outages etc.
And it was difficult getting more than a couple of friends on board. So it fell to the side for me.
It might be better these days tho, I dunno.
I’m also not overly fond of Electron apps. (I mainly use desktop versions as I dislike smartphones in general;))
Oh, I feel you. I hate Electron apps with a fiery passion. Thankfully Element has tons of clients to choose from and if I ever get my friends on it, I will NOT be choosing the default desktop app. Anyway, thanks for the info!
I have toyed around with a couple of the other, actually native, apps. They were pretty nice back then but not really feature complete. I assume that has changed somewhat since I last used it. :)