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good play books alternative. upload your own pdfs and read them across devices. syncs progress, so pick up wherever you left off.

for me it's xmpp. now that monal on ios has almost reached feature parity with conversations on android, there's no reason xmpp shouldn't be the go-to alternative to whatsapp.

I don't think signal is the answer. a centralised service susceptible to all the things wrong with whatsapp. matrix is bloated. push notifications on simplex android is still sketchy.

and i dont buy the argument that onboarding is too complicated these days. most people can make an account for anything they feel is worth it.

sorry to say, but this is 100% true. i've tried postmarketos, manjaro and ubuntu touch – light years behind android and ios.