I use an iPhone and my fiancé uses Android. He is not very tech savvy. He does not like to text for privacy reasons. I was going to recommend we get Signal but see others in Lemmy talking about Matrix. Is that better? If so, what app is best that works on both our phones? Thanks Lemmy friends!
It’s actually better, rooms are decentralized. This means that even if the original server that made the room is offline or gone forever the room can continue. IIUC this is unlike Lemmy where if the instance that hosts a community goes offline that community is dead.
Some things like users are only federated, but hopefully that changes at some point.