• chepox@sopuli.xyz
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    Every single person I know or meet uses WhatsApp. About 90% of the businesses I interact with use WhatsApp Businesses. My whole family uses WhatsApp.

    Moving to another system is going to take a lot a lot of work.

    Say it with me… M O N O P O L Y

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        Here in Germany in my circle (which has people from mid-twenties to 60+, from the North to the center), most people use Signal, with Telegram being a rare outlier. WhatsApp is what everyone uses, though.

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          Here in Australia Signal tends to be used by the left leaning (because of Snowden’s endorsement) and Telegram by the right leaning (they hate Snowden).

          Also there are a lot of large chat groups on Telegram - not so many groups on Signal from what I noticed.

          I don’t understand why people would share their phone number with strangers like that.

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        Telegram has some nice features and I can understand that people want to go away from WhatsApp, but as you said it doesn’t even have end to end encryption and additionally belongs to some Russian. How’s that a beginning?

        If you’re already switching, why not go to matrix or signal instead if they are, as you said yourself, most likely the better choice? If you’re switching because of the features, okay. But switching, because of privacy concerns or the company behind it makes absolutely no sense imo.

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      In business there isn’t a monopoly just yet teams and slack are way more common

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        Correct. It’s specifically prohibited on my company’s devices.

        We are required to use the company provided Teams for instant messaging.

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          It’s still a little buggy, and I’m all for free and open source, but the whole ecosystem is invaluable for herding cats and dealing with people that forget the passwords they should be using every day.