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>>quenti+(OP)
With Signal moving away from SMS, the required messaging app stack on my phone just to be able to receive everything sent do me will have to be:

- Signal -> Close friends & family I've convinced to use it.

- WhatsApp -> Most of my friends.

- SMS -> School notifications, 2FA, shipping updates, etc.

- Facebook Messenger -> Elderly relatives

- Telegram -> That one relative who wants to use this instead of Signal.

Is there a consolidated messaging app that the HN community recommends?

I can't be the only one suffering from messenger bloat.

>>joel35+Ub
No, there isn't any, because outside Telegram and SMS, none of those apps really support any APIs or 3rd party clients.

Signal team is also actively hostile to any 3rd party client usage of their service.

And that's always cheered on this website - just remember the RCS topics where people were making fun of attempts to add some basic standardisation to this mess.