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Is it (still) worth trying to switch my family and friends from WhatsApp to Signal? (Read all of it, please.) (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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.)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You don't need to, as facebook, messenger , whatsapp, imessage, and Telegram will be forced by the EU to interoperate with Signal and other messengers in about six months. (for now only text chat no voip in sight)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WHAT, I DID NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Look up the DMA, it goes well beyond just messaging apps.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

If this ends up to be implemented it's literally my best opportunity to stop using propietary apps without losing the ability to interact with friends/people using them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know that :o

Would you have a relevant link to share so I can learn more about it please ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well, Meta can still do their practices though. And I fear it will be even worse since they can know when you texted, who you texted, where you texted, for how long you texted in WA and i fear this will spread to other platforms too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's a tradeoff to be aware of. you will have to assess your threat model and decide which approach suits you more

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would Google Duo also need to interoperate? (Or did they remove the allo from duo again, or what was the text chat app again?)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know which google product they will make interoperate. what I know is that google is already working on implementing this. Teams will probably made to. in the early stages, I read that one criteria to be designated a gate keeper is to have more than 50 million users.