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!

  • FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Sorry to disagree, but I’ve been moving chunks of people to my matrix/element instance with great success. What have you experienced that is horrid from the UX perspective?

    • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The keying is not very transparent and it’s really easy to lock yourself out of your own older messages.

      • FancyGUI@lemmy.fancywhale.caEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Interesting… I guess I see what you mean. Using public instances that are ‘centralized’ does reduce this kind of issues, even though they’re not perfect.