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Google reminds us that Google Chat can be used with friends and family (9to5google.com)
submitted 2 years ago by nihilx7E3@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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tl;dr: after pushing rcs so hard for years, killing hangouts well after forgetting about it, & hiding it from gmail, google now wants you to use its (and google allo's) successor, google chat.

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[–] ptman@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Matrix

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I used to use Google hangouts since it worked with Pidgin and other 3rd party apps. As soon as they nuked Hangouts I spun up a Matrix instance, got all my family on it, and haven't looked back. It's been excellent.

[–] jks 1 points 2 years ago

For an all-too-brief span of time (was it months? a year?) I could be using Gmail, my friend could be using Facebook, and we could have a text chat using the interoperable XMPP systems.