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hemmes@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Network effects

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• scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because most of the world is already on WhatsApp, and changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

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  • hemmes@lemmy.world ⁨45⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Damn shame

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  • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

    Sounds great - if I wasn’t already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁

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  • Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Must be more popular in your country, in Canada I don’t know a single person on whatsapp

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    • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s very big in western Europe. Here in the Netherlands everybody is on WhatsApp pretty much since it’s creation

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      • Pechente@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        In Germany too and I remember how upsetting it was to me from the beginning. There were third party messengers that supported established (at the time) services like ICQ or live messenger but people got onto the hot new thing because it’s so much like SMS.

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    • OliMoli2137@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Poland , and everybody is on WhatsApp, only a few people have Telegram. Searched a bit of saved phone numbers, none had Signal tied to them

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    • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah they’re all on Facebook Messenger which sucks. I’ve managed to switch a few in my surroundings to Signal but I still need to keep Messenger for holdouts.

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      • Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Thankfully I have managed to get everyone to switch from Messenger to Signal, atleast for talking to me haha. Two other family members being privacy oriented too really helped getting the rest of the family moved over.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same thing with Twitter and mastodon I guess.

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• plutopos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  because it’s the de facto sms replacement in many european and south american countries

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• Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I could move to Signal, open up a chat with myself and chat for a while but I think it would get pretty boring pretty soon.

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thought people on here of all places would understand the impact of the network effect.

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• cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I agree, but the other people all use it 🫠

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• cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Couldn’t be me… but some people don’t care that Meta can read their messages. Or they still don’t know but I doubt it.

  Mark Zuckerberg has a term for these people…

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  • Nouvellalia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    “dumbfucks”
    -Markie Zuc

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• Mac@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You genuinely don’t know? 😬

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