This may sound a bit dumb, but eh.

So when that WhatsApp privacy policy change thing happened in early 2021, I tried switching from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. Telegram kinda stuck with me since i still get news from there, but Signal… not really because I didn’t care about privacy back then. Now, I want to make the switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and I have a few plans on how to do that. But, is it worth it, since most people in Türkiye use Whatsapp and even if I switch my family and friends over to Signal, they’ll still use WhatsApp since most people are on there.

So, yeah. Should i try, or is it not worth doing? Let me know, also, thanks in advance!

(Note: Most of my family and friends don’t really care about privacy.)

(Note 2: This was also posted in r/signal and r/privacy subreddits.)

  • Em Adespoton@lemmy.ca
    2·
    2 years ago

    The few people I had using it won’t use it anymore since Signal dropped sms. Best I have been able to do now is talk to people with iMessage.

    Well that’s odd, as iOS Signal never supported SMS, and Android phones don’t support iMessage, only SMS.

    • Wisely@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 years ago

      The family using Signal was on Android. The people on ios refused to ever use anything other than iMessage.

      I can talk to them with iMessage as always and the Android people are now sms only “green” after they left Signal. They said it’s too confusing to text on different apps so they dropped down to their default sms.