The new threads feature that Google shoved into Gchat (or whatever the hell they're calling it now) has been wildly successful at making the app annoying. It's basically impossible NOT to accidentally start a thread when chatting with someone.
And then you're off in that thread while the other person thinks you're not responding at all. And you think they're not responding. It brings absolutely nothing good to the experience, and everything bad.
So it's basically got another point where I'm considering alternatives. Can anyone recommend some? I'm looking for something that's not too hard to use, because some of the people I chat with are not exactly technophiles. But it would be nice to have the option to send and receive images, as well as basic formatting options like italics and boldfacing.
I probably don't need to say this, but there's no way in hell I will ever use Facebook Messenger. Never never never. Nor am I interested in anything owned by a billionaire.
Speaking of getting away from Google, this was another day with effectively no YouTube. So that's good.
![The "No, I don't think I will meme" from Avengers: Endgame, but with an elderly Captain America's face replaced with the Thunderbird logo (Thunderbird is an email client, or, more specifically, a Mail User Agent [MUA]).](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/501/050/946/610/733/original/5b914820c93ef519.png)
