how to imessage between two apple mac computers when neither person has another idevice?

[gameboy3800]

so my friend and i recently both got old mac laptops just to experience osx and familiarize with it. we'd like to imessage eachother just for convenience sake, but with both of us so new to osx we're not sure how to go about it. i've figured out how to imessage someone else by adding their iphone number. but neither of us have another apple device.  is there any way to contact another apple computer via imessage?

[mariushm]

Why not use Discord or Slack , or some generic IRC software like let's say LimeChat (just agree to use an IRC network, undernet for example, and create a channel for you two, or join an existing channel)

 

There's also Riot.im and similar websites: https://about.riot.im/

You can use their free public server to connect and then data exchanges between you two.

[Husky]

You should be able to if you use the email address associated with the person's Apple ID account. Just make sure that both people has their email address enabled as a valid way to reach them via iMessage (should be by default) and then just message each other by using each other's iCloud email address.

[gameboy3800]

36 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Why not use Discord or Slack , or some generic IRC software like let's say LimeChat (just agree to use an IRC network, undernet for example, and create a channel for you two, or join an existing channel)

 

There's also Riot.im and similar websites: https://about.riot.im/

You can use their free public server to connect and then data exchanges between you two.

thats not the point

[mariushm]

33 minutes ago, gameboy3800 said:

thats not the point

Then phrase it correctly.

You said "we'd like to imessage eachother just for convenience sake" which implies you don't really NEED it, or that it's a MUST to use imessage, you imply that you just want to communicate with each other in some form. 

I gave you perfectly acceptable alternatives to "imessage".

[gameboy3800]

4 minutes ago, mariushm said:

Then phrase it correctly.

You said "we'd like to imessage eachother just for convenience sake" which implies you don't really NEED it, or that it's a MUST to use imessage, you imply that you just want to communicate with each other in some form. 

I gave you perfectly acceptable alternatives to "imessage".

the point of this question was asking for help with imessage/apple. not to just ignore it.

[gameboy3800]

3 hours ago, Husky said:

You should be able to if you use the email address associated with the person's Apple ID account. Just make sure that both people has their email address enabled as a valid way to reach them via iMessage (should be by default) and then just message each other by using each other's iCloud email address.

so we now both have eachothers apple id emails in our contacts, yet still he's not receiving?

update: we figured it out. needed some secondary apple id thing on his end. works fine now.