Today is Global Switch Day for the Fediverse, and to be honest it surprised me after waking up and seeing @
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Do you guys have suggestions on how to encourage my contacts to migrate from that bloody whatsapp into Signal and/or Element? I bloody hate Meta, I hate everything it stands for, I call it “Merda” (shit) not without a reason, and yet I need to use their shite because everyone uses it, including my family.
All you can do is check their interest and inform them. And switch yourself. Make yourself less available on the platform you are avoiding.
The single most common excuse for not shifting to the Fediverse has been in my experience, “I can’t leave because everyone is still there.” I’ve been
draggingencouraging people to move towards Signal and the Fediverse for years now. Gentle persistence appears to be the way.That’s exactly what I’m getting, too - the “collective action” problem Doctorow talks about. I managed to make a single person use it alongside WhatsApp, and… that’s it.
I’m trying to remember how people migrated from ICQ to MSN Messenger to WhatsApp.
One of my friends uses it with me. I got my wife to install it and she’ll get my signal message and text me back.