The trick is to never talk to people.
I made the jump a few years ago. The vast majority of my contacts didn't migrate from WhatsApp, and only a select few of my closest pals did.
It has been fuckin' awesome.
I'm confused, isn't Signal American?
American yes, but the way it works almost makes it irrelevant fact. So, it's still good and recommended.
Yep.
Is SimpleX american too? Because I liked it more than Signal anyway.
Sigh cant get my family off WhatsApp.
But once you have a few anchor friends you can find excuses to pull the other friends into group chats one at a time.
We just moved my partner's family chat to Signal. Largely due to the current politics.
Yes, I guess the current events give some people an incentive to move
My take is that we should have the most popular services that has acceptable privacy installed and set up at all times, even if we know no one that use it.
Because in the future when one of our friends or family tries it, they find us.
It takes pretty much nothing to have Signal and Matrix set up.
That's my approach. The problem is letting other people know which messengers you have.
I don't use Matrix bridges, if two people are using WhatsApp over Matrix bridges, does it have a way of letting you know and switching to Matrix?
There are many groups on signal. If you join one, there's a chance you'll find more. I've had this in my bookmarks for a while a "general" signal group.
