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[–] Parastie@lemmy.world 97 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This is entirely a USA problem. No one in Europe uses iMessage as their primary messaging app.

[–] naught@sh.itjust.works 21 points 11 months ago (7 children)

What do they use? Whatsapp? Wechat? Signal?

[–] WorldieBoi@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (36 children)
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[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Over here it's Facebook Messenger, followed by Telegram and only then WhatsApp. Signal is niche stuff for nerds such as yours truly.

[–] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Where I live it’s mostly whatsapp

[–] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah it actually varies a lot. In Poland Whatsapp is the boomer messaging app for cringy political memes used exclusively by 50+ year-olds. Everyone else uses Facebook Messenger and Telegram (especially Ukrainians, Belarussians and people who work with them)

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 6 points 11 months ago

Depends on the country but mostly WhatsApp followed in second place by Telegram

[–] GenEcon@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Germany uses Whatsapp and Signal. Whatsapp for the older generation, Signal for the younger ones. But almost everyone has both. Telegram is a niche messenger for conspiracy theorists and alt-righters, because it's russian and those people love Russia.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yea, that's totally why people I know use Telegram / πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

[–] GenEcon@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Might be different in other countries, but in Germany its only used by them.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

in Germany its only used by them.

Factually wrong.

[–] berber@lemmy.chaos.berlin 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

i live in germany and to me telegram doesn't feel niche at all.

a lot of younger people use it a bit like discord, like for group stuff. organizing (like e.g. political activism), finding apartents in berlin, and yes, getting drugs as well. also some worklplaces use it (which i think is terrible). it is also preferred by a lot of people to communicate via telegram over signal or whatsapp in situations where people don't want to give away their number, like online dating.

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[–] TK420@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And I refuse to use any Facebook products, so what’s app can fuck right off

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