its even more outdated

I only use it because there's no way I could convince my friends and family to move to anything else.

There's no point in switching to another app if I then literally couldn't communicate with the people I need to through it.

Wait until you hear how many people use facebook messenger.

Signal is the best.

I wish people would stop using the Crowder meme template.

Eh, whatsapp isn't ideal and its owner is one of the big devils of today, but it's the only way to send and receive instant messages among billions of people. I despise it, but it's the only way I can contact people. Needless to say, they don't give a single flying fuck about privacy.

Whatsapp outages make people migrate to Telegram for 1-2 days at most, nobody ends up staying there. Signal? I've only ever met three other people in RL who have even heard of it, and I work in IT.

A more apt comparison would be to languages. Whatsapp is english: clunky, weird, full of nonsense, but it's what "everyone talks". Signal would probably be lojban or esperanto.

SMS is IE, Whatsapp is Chrome, and Signal is Firefox. Use Signal/Firefox.

Chrome is the Internet Explorer of the browsers.

Steven Crowder is a garbage human and doesn't deserve a meme template

Look, I hate Facebook just as much as the next guy. But I live in The Netherlands and it's the primary way I can contact literally everyone I know. So changing to another messaging app is hard here.

Fuck Steven Crowder and any meme based on his bullshit

Steven Crowder is the wife abuser of the meme world.

Nah. SMS and iMessage are the IE of messaging. Unsafe and locked in.

signal and telegram are so much better, don't know why we can't get over that shit app

In some countries like India, people just assume that everyone uses whatsapp. It's gotten to the point where whatsapp has become the definition of messaging (for most people).

I don't see how Whatsapp is outdated to the point where one would compare it to IE, but I'll say whatsapp is more like Google Chrome than IE.

Here, use this:

Except it does nearly everything any other messaging app does, so there really is no need to force a switch. Unlike Internet Explorer, that used outdated rendering engine making it both slow and buggy, it was unsafe as it used ActiveX, didn't support ad-blockers it actually broke or didn't open most new website.

WhatsApp seems very conservative with adding new features. I generally feel the features they do decide to add are all pretty useful. Telegram on the other hand doesn't ever seem to slow down with the new features. Many of them seem great, but just as many I would never use. I'm still wondering why Telegram won't introduce end-to-end encryption as a default.

I hope that the DMA gets passed in the EU. It'll (hopefully) break the monopoly worldwide

Its privacy is very questionable, but how is it outdated?

Op thinks only the USA exists apparently

Can we further compress this meme template to the point that nobody could possibly tell it's Stephen Crowder in it

I'd say Viber is worse (unbearably slow, has ads), and it's the most used messaging app in Ukraine which just sucks. (basically everyone has it)
people are slowly switching over to Telegram but it still has less then 50% market share...

I never have any problems Whatsapp. My messages get sent and I receive messages no problem.

Matrix or Signal only for me. nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states, sms is simply insecure in every way, and telegram has very suspicious roots imo, along with a lack of e2ee and a terrible ui.

signal is the most secure option and matrix is federated making it the most "open" option.

Whatsapp is still supported

I’ve somehow never used WhatsApp.

Someone has not used Line...

Except people at one point realized that IE is shit and switched to better alternatives. I don't see this happening with WhatsApp - everyone and their great grandfather uses it and all other messengers are niche occurrences

WhatsApp is usually 2 years behind Telegram for all cool and interesting features.

Technically, unironically, its latest desktop version for Windows is better than expected. It's no longer based on Electron or whatever, consumes less resources than before and works adequately.

That said, I still don't like it.

It has become better, though.

• Multi-device (without your primary device needing an internet connection)
• Deleting messages
• Editing messages
• Reactions
• Larger file uploads…

i think we should stop using this specific variation of the meme even though it's the original because crowder is cringe

It has at least one advantage relative to ie6.exe - it's cross platform.

I have WhatsApp and Viber. 95% of people use WhatsApp, even though I prefer Viber. I do not really have anything against it, even if FB owns it. And I do not have a FB account.

WhatsApp is like hemorrhoids, you can try to ignore it but it's getting your attention eventually no matter how hard you try.

Best messaging app is the one that has most users and is free to use. Sadly the truth is so simple, that's why everyone in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America use WhatsApp.

No, I don’t think I will.

more like netscape....

I still use IRC daily

Signal is my jam.

Aim wants a word.

I wish. It's completely replaced text messaging in a lot of countries, it's not going away anytime soon

That is a spicy take I must day

Then what is facebook messenger? Netscape?

Permanently Deleted

How you interpret this comment is like an age test.

I agree 100% with you. Whatscrapp is just a proprietary user subjugating version of XMPP. I prefer to communicate using xmpp protocol because it's federated like fediverse. You can use conversation for android

Not the IE, the telex

My cousins and I used to stay up until the early hours of the morning using TextPlus on our ipods lol

in our country we use viber and I don't know which one is worse

ie 4 compatible!

I've been out of touch since IRC and ICQ were the preferred way to communicate over the internet. What are folks using nowadays?

But its a privately owned product and capitalism breeds innovation?

This is the stupidest use of this stupid meme with this stupid piece of shit that I've ever seen

#TelegramMasterRace

I really don't get the need to have an app that does messaging. My phone DOES messaging, built in. Why do I need another one?