Forced to use my phone during a windows update which breaks my computer. My phone is shitty and slow. Google is full of unhelpful results. Youtube is showing nothing but political ads about ms-13 killing white people.

Truly 2024 is great.

  • homhom9000 [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    The one thing I’m struggling to get rid of, eventhough I hate it to high heavens, is google messages. The features I do like are great but they keep adding crap I will never use(Gemini) and I’m naturally concerned with privacy. But if everyone in your life is still on one platform, it’s so hard to switch.

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      3 months ago

      I quit using google messaging when they killed Hangouts and Voice. Sorry, wish I had a recommendation for ya. Definitely feel ya about platform woes, and this is coming from a guy who got his IRL loved ones to switch to Signal back in 2017. I wanna get my peeps on Element/Matrix but already I’ve run into some resistance… so it goes. Good luck comrade.

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        3 months ago

        The main one was the automatic spam check where it’ll move percieved spam messages to another tab. Most of the time it’s correct and it catches all of the political spam. I also like the rcs support too since most of my friends have iphones. Then the last thing is the Ui/UX which I like, easy to attachment pics and emojis