I made a stoat account to escape discord with a few friends and this image is exactly what happened. Majority of people we know aren’t inconvenienced enough to move on.
I actually have my main groupchat on signal, but I think that has more to do with having friends that do drugs than anything else.
::Pete Hegseth has entered the chat::
And made it public
Add my number so tht you have one contact
Which country number is this? 😂
The country that will never give you up
I got all my friends to switch to signal!
Lemmy memes signal groupchat when?
DM me for invite. You can trust me. I’m Agent641
Found Kegseth’s alt
C’mon bro, we’re clean on opsec bro, join the group bro!
Totally bombing Oman later Bro! Still down for Golden Corral?
That’s hilarious but I could actually really go for some chicken-fried steak rn
When I switched to Signal I enforced it hard. Refused to talk to anyone on another platform. If they texted me, I’d responed, but always add “I’d prefer if we discussed this over Signal.”
I had more success than I’d anticipated. About 90% of my family and 80% of my friends moved over.
My best piece of advice for this is to start new group chats - people want to be in the group chats, and if they believe Signal is where it’s all happening, they’ll join.
It was way easier to get converts when it still supported SMS/MMS
I’m on the receiving end of this from a friend and I didn’t even think twice about it. I think we’re all in a place now where being asked to install yet another app is pretty commonplace. Plus phone app stores make it relatively painless to do.
It’s great for talking to my friends out of country instead of stupid WhatsApp, but I got some weird messages on there.
For a while, it was just my one buddy I convinced to use it and I, but then I got hired at a new company and hit it off with the resident cybersec OG! Having Signal ready to rock gave a great first impression :)
Maybe all your contacts also value their privacy and therefore have not set signal to allow them to be discovered by their phone number
If that’s the case, then i would be more happier to get their usernames atleast. But the situation is way worse than that. They are deeply into whatsapp.
Why do people use signal? It has one centralized server and phone number registration. There are many better alternatives.
Which ones are you thinking of? Out of the options I am aware of, Signal seems to be the most secure, most reliable, and most privacy respecting messaging app in this category.
I use deltachat/arcanechat. It uses the mailchat protocol. There’s also tox, simplex, matrix, xmpp(conversations) these can do e2e, you can self host it or use a public server, everything distributed through app stores can be compromised. Every app were you rely on a central server can be shutdown. You also don’t know how the server software works of for example “signal”, what data they collect. Although messages are encrypted you can still log metadata like when where iplocation, with who?
The problem i guess with thr alternatives is bad service in terms of audio and video chat. The benefit of ms teams for example is their huge cdn. it just works nearly all over the world. Whatsapp/discord is used by so many that it’s difficult to stay in contact otherwise.
It used to be an SMS client too, to help get people on board. Now they expect you to either memorize which people use which protocols, or just use SMS.
Don’t use SMS. As it is unencrypted, the ISP have complete access over it.
“And that’s why I won’t be getting dental work here anymore!”
At least i got 3 people to install Signal just for me.
Sounds like it worked
I love Session messenger as a decentralised solution, but man it sucks how little people want to change their habits
