[__jonas]

I'm in Europe, I haven't encountered anyone in my life who has used iMessage (everyone uses WhatsApp, now also Telegram/Signal), so I don't really have a use for it, when I wanted to try the weird AR emoji / heartbeat reaction message things with my partner we noticed we both had iMessage turned off, I guess it's like a setting that maybe we skipped during the phone setup? Not sure if it's on by default for some people.

[plufz]

Where in Europe is that? Surprising to me (Swedish).

[__jonas]

I've lived in Germany and the UK, I guess I wrongly assumed it was like this everywhere in Europe. Might also be related to the social environment.

I am noticing, the social circle I am currently in has now largely moved to Telegram, whereas in other places it's 100% WhatsApp.

[zarzavat]

Telegram itself seems like one big honeypot, if people are moving from WhatsApp to Telegram that’s quite a retrograde step.

[sneak]

Telegram is not end to end encrypted. The service provider can read the messages.