WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…
WhatsApp is close to rolling out third-party chat support across the European Union, as part its compliance with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act (DMA)…
Or don’t use apps and services run by oligarchs and Nazi shitheads in the first place… FOMO is a helluva drug.
Instant messaging apps are famously easy to switch because most people use them for the features and not the people they can contact. /s
Very apathetic attitude, be the change you want and the important people that want to contact you will switch. There’s an adjustment period but people will switch if you tell them to contact you via email if they don’t want to install signal/session and break their addiction to oligarchical institutions services.
Big „cut contact with your friends and family over an app” energy.
Big “my family won’t switch for me” copium
5 years ago made the switch with family and friends, only issue was with companies and I just don’t bother with those. If customer service is on what’s app, fuck that corporation.
Near impossible to do in your youth while you’re constantly meeting new people and trying to form new relationships.
Not going to try to convince someone I just met to downland a new app just to talk to me.
Form new relationships with the people that have functioning brains. “Hey, you can contact me on signal, txt or email” is not a difficult thing to say.
Asking someone to download an app is not a big ask. Kids install hundreds of dumb apps all the time. It’s not an acceptable excuse. If they don’t have signal/email/txt just shrug and move on. You don’t have to cater to the peer pressure to use whatever app someone else is using either.
We need to educate kids on online safety and not let them get locked into oligarchic platforms just because of fomo and ignorance.
Unfortunately we live in this thing called reality, and writing everyone off who isn’t willing to download signal the day they meet you isn’t something the vast majority of people are willing to do.
So you’ll let someone you just met dictate how YOU contact THEM…. But lack the spine to ask the same to the people you meet. Fucking 🤡
Sounds like you’ll conform to whatever the people around choose you to be and follow whatever everyone else tells you to do like a good little dog.
Fomo and peer pressure are drugs that turn people into “useful idiots”
So what do you suggest we do instead?
I mean… There’s alternatives.
Telegram and Signal are the obvious first choices, although both have their own set of issues.
Matrix is a good contender but it isn’t really beginner friendly, and even if you manage to run your own server or bridges, it’s a PITA to maintain. Beeper is fairly good and allows you to have more control over your messages - but then you’re still bridging into WhatsApp and Messenger and other IMs.
Though pushing your friends to switch to these services can be beneficial at the end, but it ain’t easy. Most people will still call you a conspiracy nut for not liking the fact that megacorporations like Meta have their fingers in every aspect of your life (in fact I’m surprised Amazon hasn’t made their own IM service yet), and replatforming those people is just super hard.
And that’s the thing right?
I use Session and Signal, but use WhatsApp for most of my friends and family.