I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!
If you want to turn a normie off secure messaging for life, give him matrix. The UX is completely horrid.
I think element is pretty easy to use honestly.
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If they’re not that tech savvy, though, you might also be expecting a lot if you want them to distinguish between client and server/service.
For the most part, they’re probably expecting the service to be the same app. Facebook is the Facebook app, Instagram is the Instagram app, so on.
Having multiple clients for the same thing might be a stretch, let alone having to find one that works and isn’t missing features and things.
Schildichat, which is a messenger for Matrix is rather easy to use. My wife and kids use it while I use Element.
Sorry to disagree, but I’ve been moving chunks of people to my matrix/element instance with great success. What have you experienced that is
horridfrom the UX perspective?The keying is not very transparent and it’s really easy to lock yourself out of your own older messages.
Interesting… I guess I see what you mean. Using public instances that are ‘centralized’ does reduce this kind of issues, even though they’re not perfect.