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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

10/10 foreveralone experience

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@Comtief @adbenitez I think the best alternative to WhatsApp, which at least isn't META and is relatively secure, is Telegram. The rest are difficult to use because they have few users.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I use telegram daily, but generally everyone here where i live uses Facebook messenger.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@Comtief Try switching to Telegram. Meta is never an option. Between them and Google, you'll never have privacy.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i said I use telegram to which you replied i should switch to telegram. I swear half the people on this platform are high..

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

@Comtief Hahaha, sorry. I didn't read it correctly. English isn't my native language either. Cheers ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

@dbencom @Comtief Telegram doesn't even offer E2EE by default, it's as worse as unencrypted RCS, and you share a lot of metadata with the company.

Signal, SimpleX, even XMPP+OMEMO and Delta Chat are way better than Telegram if we talk about privacy/security.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My personal experience: 121 chats (just my family account I have several other accounts)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Idk why you are showing me this. I guarantee you that anyone I know has never heard of this app.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

To show you that it doesn't have to be a forever alone experience, in your case perhaps it will be, if you are the kind that have to run after the people close to you and accommodate to their requirements for them not to leave you behind and forgotten perhaps you are already alone...

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm saying noone I communicate with in similar apps use Delta or whatever you call it. Idk how on earth your takeaway from this is that I wouldn't move away from the bigger apps when my point is the total opposite.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah and they will not know it exist until you try it out and let them know about the app and help them try it out and get in contact with you.

Unlike WhatsApp that has millions to throw in marketing, come preinstalled on devices and by know "everyone uses it" other smaller projects that are not making money out of you need your help to do the "marketing" part

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why you are telling me all this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

You wouldn't get it ๐Ÿšฌ