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Which is your preferred messaging app? I just want some insights about these two.

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Matrix is just far too convoluted. Signal seems to be the easiest one to use. SimpleX is the best.

[–] smileyhead@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What is complicated about Matrix?

[–] artyom@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago

I have constant encryption errors that I can never figure out how to fix it. And I always have issues signing in on a new device. I don't even know why.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

they do better onboarding last i tried it, but adding servers is not as simple as just pasting a code. you suddenly have to worry about servers and which rooms are in which server and such. you do have to make sense of things when you first log in.

i found it unfamiliar, but i guess such is life when you are swapping apps. the clients i tried could use some tweaking and feel pretty sparse. some looked and felt like IRC.

it should have more pictures (not entirely unserious)