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The other countries not mentioned are on Facebook's Messenger.

• piva00 11mo ago
  I think Germany has a high amount of users on Signal, it's quite interesting seeing the stats about messaging apps in different countries, it's very fractured internationally while being very consistent inside borders. I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger, it's the clunkiest of them all, and since I don't like using it all I constantly miss important messages from friends from not having the app installed and checking Facebook once in a blue moon :/
  • reddalo 11mo ago
    >it's very fractured internationally while being very consistent inside borders I think it's caused by the network effect [1]. >I for one fucking hate that most of Sweden uses FB Messenger I agree. Denmark is the same, everybody uses FB Messenger or, even worse, Snapchat. And don't even get me started on payment systems: Sweden has Swish, Denmark has MobilePay, Italy has Satispay, etc. It's completely fractured and it's so annyoing when travelling across the EU. At least there's a new European system called Wero [2], I wonder if it's going to help fixing this situation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect [2] https://wero-wallet.eu/ https://wero-wallet.eu/
  • xethos 11mo ago
    This is probably a lot more work than you're willing to put in, but the Facebook Messenger bridge for Matrix has actually been reliable, set'n'forget, and headache-free for me, whenever I have to use it for Marketplace. I wouldn't otherwise mention it, but this is one of the few sites where "Stand up your own messaging server" isn't a completely insane suggestion.
• karel-3d 11mo ago
  That's not dominant anywhere right now. Facebook now somehow merged it back to the main app... again.