I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!

  • eating3645@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Go with signal, it’s the right tool for your job. Matrix has its merits, but is less intuitive, less streamlined, and less polished then signal. For many use case these wouldn’t matter, but for you they do.

    Signal is so easy, my grandparents are on it. They can’t attach a file on an email, but they can use signal.

  • CodeBlooded@programming.devEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    We should all be using Signal, all of the time. It’s accessible to those not technically inclined, and I feel like that’s a requirement now if a personal-use technology wants to get off the ground.

    Edit: this is not to detract from matrix, which seems like a great technology for privacy

  • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    If you want to turn a normie off secure messaging for life, give him matrix. The UX is completely horrid.

  • Seven@feddit.deEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    Get Signal.

    I have both and the synchronising of matrix keeps ages.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I ditched signal after they reversed course and dropped support for SMS in the app for bullshit reasons. Who knows what other brain dead move they will try to pull next?