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• sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • bluesheep@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I remember starting to use it because texting was pretty expensive and limited at the time. Whatsapp was free (group) texting when on WiFi and still cheaper when on cellular. If texting wasn’t so expensive at the time I really don’t think whatsapp would’ve caught on like it did. Now people are just used to it so that’s probably why it’s still big

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    • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the whole europe except some countries

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.

        Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.

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  • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • OliMoli2137@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So what? Don’t support fascism.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Same thing with Twitter and mastodon I guess.

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• hemmes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Damn shame

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