[stark98]

Facebook Messenger is the most used communicator in my country (Poland). Without it I would be basically disconnected from my friends and people from university/work. I'm not really happy about how dependent we are on having a Facebook account.

[xigoi]

Hopefully the EU is going to put an end to this soon.

[dontbenebby]

The issue is there is no good equivalent to Signal that lets you use a username instead of a phone number as the primary identifier, unless you count OTR, which isn't very user friendly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-Record_Messaging#Imple...

[xigoi]

I'm sure a good app will emerge when the network effect is no longer a concern.