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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
I don't think that would work, because then they'd just introduce their own messaging standard.

https://xkcd.com/927/

>>benj11+mg
> the difference is that matrix isn't trying to become the One True Standard, but just glue the others together. @xkcdComic

https://twitter.com/matrixdotorg/status/841424770025545730/p...

>>up6w6+GE
I don't disagree that that's the status at the moment.

But the nature of these things is X gains traction. Y wants a piece of X's pie so cuts X off. X realises that it's dependent on the Ys and so launches its own service.

We've seen the this with Netflix. We've seen the former with Twitter.

Ideally the stars would align so that it's in everyone's interests to support an open protocol and we kind of have those in SMS and email. Except these have their own issues.