Signal. I love it but can't always get people to use it

Signal.

A few years ago, I didn't really care about privacy and even worshipped Google and such. Now that I do care about them, I rejoined Signal (which I disliked a few years ago). I am currently waiting for the EU's DMA law to take effect (specifically the messaging app interoperability) so I can delete WhatsApp and my account for good and only use Signal to communicate with others, no matter if they're using WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. Feels good to be in the EU atm. You know how stuff is in the EU, literally everyone is using WhatsApp so you have no choice but to use WhatsApp as well. I tried to get my family and friends into Signal now, but it seems like they are like the people that say "I have nothing to hide, and I don't trust such sketchy apps.". Feels annoying but I no longer need to thanks to EU's DMA law.

Back in the days before smartphones, when people were still messaging from their PCs like dirty cavemen, I've gone trough a lot of messenging apps, but this Jabber client called AQQ was my favourite. Community created plugin-ins with extra functionalities and skins that could completely change its look, so the below are examples:

(one of the first apps I remember that embraced the dark themes, though there were all kinds of them, including light and pink...)

It supported multiple networks simultaneously, something that doesn't happen nowadays.

Like all of those apps, in the end, it lost to Facebook messages.

EDIT: only now I noticed the second part of the question - "... and rejoined". Sorry, I'm stoned. In this comment branch we name the ones we're just sorry they're gone ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

I don't really get messaging apps. I have discord on my phone but I disabled notifications because my phone buzzes any time someone posts anything in any community I'm a part of and it was getting really annoying. I also don't use it for messaging, I just use it for the voice lobbies.

Other than that, I text exclusively.

Snapchat.

I hate when the only way to get in touch with people is to use a shitty app like it.

Facebook Messenger Lite. My mom just won't use anything else.