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What app you americans use for personal conversations? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here in South Europe people mostly use Viber. Edit: I was very unaware about situation in Southern Europe as I've learned from this post... Most people in Croatia use Viber!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Signal for everything.

There are a couple people who are too lazy to get Signal, and they got iPhones, so I set up an iMessage server to forward messages to my GrapheneOS phone.

But the communication there is extremely sparse and surface level. It's basically just a touch point. The real conversations all go through Signal.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Share a bit (or a link) about your iMessage server?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Maybe a good idea for a blog post, but the general gist is this:

  1. Buy an old/cheap Mac mini
  2. Set up AirMessage or BlueBubbles (open source)
  3. Run a command or get an app so keep your Mac mini (or whatever other Apple device you're using) awake 24/7

The messages will get delivered to your Mac, and then forwarded to your phone via AirMessage or BlueBubbles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I want to do something like this but airmessage does not have a desktop client that works without using their clouds. I use a Apple phone but I just want to be able to respond to texts on my Linux computers. I have an iMac server that I vnc into but it’s kind of annoying just to respond to a text.