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Useless messenger (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Not sure why anyone would use it. I certainly wouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

Couple reasons:

WhatsApp was its own company, took advantage of an open market in EU where SMS (and "international" phone calls?) were extra rate charges on mobile phones. Once every one got accustomed to using whatsapp Meta took it over and now we're stuck with it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

To communicate with anyone outside of the US, where it is extremely popular and is the main interaction with many businesses as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's almost impossible not to sadly, at least if you want to reach everybody in ypur contacts... It was the first popular messaging app here and inertia prevents people from moving to better alternatives now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Here almost everybody uses Viber or Messenger (I know Messenger's also Meta)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

viber > anything owned by facebool

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Threema > anything owned by giant corporations

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The reason is the network effect. I want to use signal or rather even an EU based messaging service, but everybody, including businesses, are on WhatsApp in my country.

[–] nitefox 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Younger ppl are on telegram, but that’s worse than WhatsApp so not much to be done

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

they should be using signal

[–] nitefox 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

In an ideal world, maybe. Hopefully we will see more of that thanks to RCS, since major players like WhatsApp, Message (Facebook) and iMessage will have to open up and be interoperable with other messaging systems.

So far, though, I'm stuck with WhatsApp (and iMessage for just one person!) and Telegram, nobody uses Signal here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

convince new contacts to use signal that probably should be a good starting point

[–] nitefox 1 points 9 months ago

dude…