In my country WhatsApp is omnipresent. Not using it means that I cannot even contact customer service or buy from the majority of digital stores because they do not use a land line anymore. Yet, I am the 0.00000001% stubborn without it. I try to bring people to Signal where I have 5 contacts at most. It would be hard to move people away from WhatsApp to yet another platform unless it’s utterly appealing.

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Yeah, WhatsApp isn't great, but I understand why people use it. I just try to convince people who do use it that Signal has the feature set that they're looking for with much better security and they don't have to tie it to their Meta account. It's still better than people using SMS or even Facebook Messenger, though. Unfortunately, a lot of people that I know use both of those no matter how hard I try to get them to join Signal. Anyways, major respect for holding out under that social pressure. 🫡