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   ⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir (antoinechambertloir@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:02:40 JST ⏚ Antoine Chambert-Loir

   A question regarding WhatsApp, which is my only tie to Meta. Given Meta's general behavior, and its more specific one since Jan 20, I would gladly delete the app but feel annoyed at the perspective that my family won't understand why, nor, for part of it, be sensible to the usual arguments, nor install Signal. (They say they have nothing to hide.)
   Can you share good or bad experiences in this direction? Do you have any suggestion? Any recommendation?

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     Solblack (solblack@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:02:42 JST Solblack

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     @antoinechambertloir When I definitely switched, 1 year ago, I had approx. 20 close people I wanted to keep contact with. I explained 20 times my personal concerns for not using Whatsapp, said I will remove it at some date (1 month ahead) and that I was and will be reachable on a very similar-looking application, called Signal, that matched my minimal privacy requirements. I invited them to try. Result: except my brother and mother, who now send me bare SMS, everyone did the move!

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     TSRBerry (tsrberry@ravenation.club)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 00:03:33 JST TSRBerry

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     @antoinechambertloir I have been trying to get my family to switch to Signal for some time.
     Had no success until last week when I posted a link in the group chat to message me on Signal instead. Most of them installed it and now I'm hoping the rest follows suit eventually.