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Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Please use Signal. It is a great alternative!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.