cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38798523

I don’t use apps like whatsapp or skype because they sell my data and don’t trust them.

I was hoping for a foss alternative to talk to my parents, regular folk who need something easy to set up on their android devices, ideally through fdroid.

I don’t want to reveal a real phone number because I don’t want ads from nobody.

I don’t need to see my parent’s faces, I just need to talk to them and maybe send files and lines of text.

  • northernlights@lemmy.today
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    19 hours ago

    +1 for matrix been using it for months on my own homeserver. I have bridges from discord, whatsapp and google messages so I can do all this from the same client (same setup as beeper really, same software stack)