I just don’t see it happening. Shit I have a hard time getting them to use god damn Whatsapp or Telegram (still bad but at least better than Instagram).
They are all iPhone users in the US so as you may expect they are too damn lazy to install another messaging app despite having Instagram Snapchat Tiktok BeReal and whatever shitty social media app that exists on the App Store.
For the love of god don’t just say “you need bettee friends” 😂 cause let’s be honest finding a privacy conscious person that you also can get along with in the US as Gen Z is practically impossible.
TOR was started and funded by the US Naval Research Labs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ it’s not perfect, but I know it’s widely used as a first line of defense. I won’t comment on the Radio Free Asia stuff because I have no knowledge of that, but I feel like there’s a lot of privacy tools we use that were initially funded by the US government, and even the US military in some cases. It always comes back to relative threat levels. Are you trying to avoid invasive corporate monitoring and some degree of government surveillance as a regular person? Signal is fine. Are you actively trying to hide from government intelligence agencies? Maybe it’s not so fine. Signal is still preferable to a messaging application owned by Meta, imo.
Good points