I’m looking for something to share images and videos between small family group. We use mix of android and apple. Text messages are terrible for images and videos.

We were using telegram, now I want to see what lemmy has to offer. Thank you in advance.

  • ninjaturtle@lemmy.todayEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    Signal is probably the simplest to get started with.

    There is also element/matrix for more of a discord type feel.

    SimpleX if you want something more anonymous.

    • Crazyslinkz@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 months ago

      Not looking for discord type feel. Looking for easy set up and communicating with older people and able to share videos and images.

  • HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    13·
    2 months ago

    Everyone is saying Signal, but my family uses a Matrix space (mix of phones and PCs in this case) and it works great. It’s FOSS, federated. Truly future-proof.

    • bastion@feddit.nl
      7·
      2 months ago

      Yeah. Signal is the most polished, but Matrix is the most future-proof.

      And that’s not to say that matrix lacks polish, Signal is just excellent in this regard.

      • bradboimler@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        At this point I feel the Matrix clients I’ve been keeping on eye on are more polished than Signal. None of my contacts are on Matrix though.

        • bastion@feddit.nl
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah? Which ones specifically? I like to keep tabs on Matrix - it’s really the most open of the secure systems, and if it’s clean enough to recommend, all the better.

          • bradboimler@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I recommend Element web (it has a nice PWA), Element X for Android, and the matrix.org homeserver. They’re in the middle of a migration to OpenID Connect which should simplify auth for users. You may wanna wait for that.

  • SnotBubble@lemmy.ml
    6·
    2 months ago

    I’d recommend Threema. It’s privacy focused, based in Switzerland. You don’t even need a phone number to create an account, they collect no data on you (claimed, but haven’t checked) and the code is open source, under A-GPL 3 license.

    There’s a build for Apple and Android, for which you pay once.

    I use this to talk with important family members.

  • als@lemmy.blahaj.zoneAkan
    6·
    2 months ago

    Signal is a nice suggestion but is based in the US meaning they could be subpoenaed and legally not allowed to say. It’s unlikely you’d be targeted though, unless you’re a very high-profile person. If you’re concerned about where servers are being run and who by then matrix is a great alternative.

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    31·
    2 months ago

    I just got to know about Delta Chat which sounds fantastic as it basically uses your email but wrapped as chat.

    XMPP and Matrix are other good options too, although these require creating an account (Delta Chat can work with your normal email account).

    The good thing about these last 2 is that they have calls and all that stuff.

  • philpo@feddit.orgDeutsch
    1·
    2 months ago

    Clear vote for Matrix.

    Easily works with basically every system from iOS, Android, Windows, Linux,Mac and there are Web-Clients as well. And everyone can find their own client of choice.

    You can use one of the huge federated instances like matrix.org or set one up yourself.(Which is much easier than setting up an Activity pub instance,btw.)

    There are rooms/channels that can be open or semi-open just like in Telegram, and bots are absolutely not problem (Not Like in signal). Registration is not bound to a phone number like it was in signal for a long time (but is no longer) and (unlike still needed in signal) a phone does not need to be used for sign up&transfer between devices works seamlessly.

    If you selfhost or use beeper you can even bridge to different services (signal,WhatsApp, telegram) etc. so you only use one app for everything.

  • intensely_human@lemm.ee
    32·
    2 months ago

    What’s missing from the text and photos functionality of text messaging, that you need from this app?

    • SouthFresh@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 months ago

      Photo/video sharing will undergo re-encoding under some circumstances, like mixed Andoir/iOS groups

      • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 months ago

        How can you even do mixed Android/iOS groups right now from iOS? I keep seeing people refer to that, but before I installed the iOS 18 Beta that added RCS, I tried and non-iMessage “group chats” were essentially just a broadcast list where the recipients just saw it as coming from me.

        • Zangoose@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 months ago

          I think that only happens when one of the phones doesn’t support MMS (which afaik is pretty much just ancient flip phones unless your carrier doesn’t support it for some reason). Otherwise group chats work “fine” but with terrible image/photo quality

          • 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            2 months ago

            They all should, they’re relatively recent phones and at least one of them I’ve sent MMS images to and the other one is on the same carrier as me.

            Maybe group chats is just something carriers in Germany don’t support. Nobody in their right mind here sends MMS anyway, it still costs 36 cents or so to send one, for me at least. Pretty much a straight up scam.

        • SouthFresh@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m in a couple. They’re not behaving as you’ve described, but I’m in an iPhone 11, so there’s that.