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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Use Signal instead and donate what you can per month! I'd much rather support them than Meta

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

The only thing stopping me would be that literally no one on my contact list wants to do that... including work. I'm sure that's the same for most people.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There's one slight issue with Signal and it's that none of my contacts is using it and I'm not going to be the guy telling them to install it just so that they can talk to me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Not gonna lie I did this with all of my friends and family and most of them switched 🤣 But I completely get not wanting to go there!

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should. If they'll literally stop talking to you over an app choice how good of friends are they?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Aren't you doing the same thing to them in this case?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Legitimate question: would Signal or Matrix be the most desirable place to end up in a hypothetical post-WhatsApp Hegemony world? Or XMPP for that matter?

I've honestly never got my head around the difference in terms of the pros and cons of each.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I actually haven't heard of Matrix, it sounds like your knowledge on this topic surpasses my own!! I'm gonna research the things you mentioned though because I'm interested!