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I love how you are getting downvoted for getting frustrated with people who can’t see beyond their own nose.

I fully agree with you, these people just don’t want to admit some of us don’t have the privilege of choosing since all the options end up on forcing a banking app one way or another.
Because it is a fucking privilege at this point.

Sure, come to México and tell me which local bank allows me to not use an app at all and I’ll switch

Except if you are on lemmy, if another instance user reposts their shit, your instance will get to see that because the devs don’t want to completely block their own propaganda.

That’s why I moved to Piefed, and the propaganda about my country has plummeted for some reason…

Which one of those is closer to what Telegram brings to the table?
Mostly pretty stuff like gifs/mp4/webm with alpha, stickers, animated stickers and handling things like webp/webm, self-destructing multimedia, chats that dissapear after X time, sending huge files, the option to send something as a file if it can’t be played internally, a desktop version that I can use simultaneusly… maybe groups and channels too, adding people by alias instead of phone number (maybe qr, but not a huge link like the one SimpleX uses).

You know, things that could help me to bring my “friends” and family on board or at least to give it a try.

Because Matrix isn’t exactly private since it’s meant to be a Discord clone and I share piracy among my friends and family, or for the sexy times with my friends, I need something that at least has self-destructing messages and chats where messages dissapear after some time.

I could trust it if I could self-host, but I lack the hardware (disk space, mostly) and the availability (I can’t leave my pc on all the time [also I live in México, the internet is terrible and I tend to hog it if I’m downloading something]), so I’d have to trust some random yahoo with my stuff but it wouldn’t have what I’m looking for anyway.

That last part is the “problem”, I just need something to text and send memes and files, but convincing the people around me to leave animations and stickers behind would be impossible.

Fuck… Is there an alternative? Can’t use telegram cus banned, won’t use signal because usa and for a while they got very buddy-buddy with the zucc, matrix requires me hosting and it isn’t exactly private… So what’s left?