Apple says iMessage on Android ‘will hurt us more than help us’
www.theverge.com
‘The #1 most difficult [reason] to leave the Apple universe app is iMessage.’

Just use Element! It's open source and E2EE by default.

It's also based on a federated open source protocol called Matrix so you can actually run your own server if you want to. Element is very easy to use and you don't even need a phone number!

    • spectre [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Interesting interesting, I'll give it another look, I would prefer that something FOSS becomes the standard, but it seems a bit unwieldy to laypeople at the moment.