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9to5Google: iMessage for Android doesn't matter, just use good apps (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M] to c/android@lemdro.id
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[–] 97 points 2 years ago (22 children)

This is entirely a USA problem. No one in Europe uses iMessage as their primary messaging app.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    What do they use? Whatsapp? Wechat? Signal?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Over here it's Facebook Messenger, followed by Telegram and only then WhatsApp. Signal is niche stuff for nerds such as yours truly.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Where I live it’s mostly whatsapp

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Yeah it actually varies a lot. In Poland Whatsapp is the boomer messaging app for cringy political memes used exclusively by 50+ year-olds. Everyone else uses Facebook Messenger and Telegram (especially Ukrainians, Belarussians and people who work with them)

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Germany uses Whatsapp and Signal. Whatsapp for the older generation, Signal for the younger ones. But almost everyone has both. Telegram is a niche messenger for conspiracy theorists and alt-righters, because it's russian and those people love Russia.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    i live in germany and to me telegram doesn't feel niche at all.

    a lot of younger people use it a bit like discord, like for group stuff. organizing (like e.g. political activism), finding apartents in berlin, and yes, getting drugs as well. also some worklplaces use it (which i think is terrible). it is also preferred by a lot of people to communicate via telegram over signal or whatsapp in situations where people don't want to give away their number, like online dating.

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