I understand that it may be problematic sometimes but this was very smooth. I didn’t even say anything.

A: what’s your number for the whatsapp group Me: I don’t have whatsapp because of facebook. B: ok, we have to use signal then A: ok

And that was it. Life can be very easy sometimes

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Probably they were on the edge already, but it’s good that they have made the switch

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What’s wrong with Signal: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

TLDR: Funded by the CIA, centralized in the US and phone numbers make you personally identifiable.

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Isn’t that the guy who invented Lemmy? Reminds me of TG’s founder doing the same.

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I’m assuming OP didn’t just accept a position with the fucking Hezbollah, so Signal probably fits his usecase

It’ll be fine. If the fucking CIA wanted OP to spill the beans they’ll just send an agent with a wrench directly to OP’s kneecaps.

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Yeah if you have nothing to hide, what is the problem with spying?!

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For a second I thought you meant you don’t use Signal, so they all went there on purpose to avoid you.

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People dont install Signal for me, especially feo groups. They use arguments like “yeah, and I also might have reasons not to use Signal like I do with Whatsapp”

Kinda disrespectful to put a line against a data selling app and comparing it to “nah, I just dont wanna”

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To be fair that does take effort

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Heck yeah! I got a small work group to use Element instead of slack or discord once. I was so proud of them. Kudos for you.

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