I'm also firmly in the XMPP camp, and also using Conversations as arguably the best XMPP client on android. Clearly you're falling for the false choice fallacy, even if you don't know any Conversations users, you're very likely to know XMPP user's - which incidentally can communicate seamlessly with any Conversations users. It has been getting harder with Google and Facebook shutting federations off, though - but Cisco, who are very common in the corporate space still allow it if configured.
That said - I personally don't know any Signal users, so obviously this would make Signal as inconvenient as GPG, wasn't I aware of the fallacy.
Finally: My Conversations/XMPP contact list is tiny. Everyone just ueses WhatsApp, the rest simply died out when Google shut down Hangouts XMPP support.
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Re: What about conversations?
Date: 2016-05-14 01:23 am (UTC)Clearly you're falling for the false choice fallacy, even if you don't know any Conversations users, you're very likely to know XMPP user's - which incidentally can communicate seamlessly with any Conversations users. It has been getting harder with Google and Facebook shutting federations off, though - but Cisco, who are very common in the corporate space still allow it if configured.
That said - I personally don't know any Signal users, so obviously this would make Signal as inconvenient as GPG, wasn't I aware of the fallacy.
Finally: My Conversations/XMPP contact list is tiny. Everyone just ueses WhatsApp, the rest simply died out when Google shut down Hangouts XMPP support.