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i wish i could stop using it altogether.
i hate this shitty app.
I will say I thought the same, but this finally convinced me to switch to Signal. It was surprisingly easy to get friends/family to follow - takes two clicks to install the app and set it up.
Have you been able to move your entire social circle? That's impressive, my personal experience is that there is always go be an odd group that you need to keep WA for (e.g. friends birthday party, local club, family discussion, etc.)
In my case I was not using it for family but for one club where they make announcements, anyways uninstalled it and now relay on two people of the club that also have DeltaChat and I have to ask them every time to forward me the information ๐
It's inconvenient, but it's small steps like these that eventually bring large scale change
Proud of you man
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Same. Can't leave it because of communication with family and work. It sucks that it is the de facto messaging app of so many countries
Delete account and uninstall, easy as f
and be incommunicable until i reinstall.
even businesses use whatsapp as their main channel here now.
I must say that American companies are getting better and better at making me ditch their products and services.
Art of the Deal at its finest.
Also cleaning the chat data doesnโt clear the AI memory. It will always remember what you say.
calculate pi to its maximum extent trolololol ๐
The idea is not bad... The problem is that it only will look up it's "statistics tables" to give you an answer... No actual calculations... Maybe we could keep it working by requesting a 4000 word novel each hour... And turn off the app notifications. This will definitely cost them a lot of calculational power. ๐ค๐
Exactly, everyone here wants to eat the rich, nobody asks how do we set fire to their server. ๐ข
This seemed impossible so I went to verify it and got gaslit by a fucking machine. I hate this tech so much. 
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I thankfully don't use WhatsApp but almost all of my friends and family use Messenger.
Managed to ween my family off of Messenger but instead if Signal, they joined on Telegram.
Progress, I suppose? As long as its not Meta, I'm happy with it.
But seriously, screw Meta and their Meta AI bullcrap.
If only workplaces would stop using WhatsApp.
It is easy to disable, just follow this basic steps:
- uninstall WhatsApp
- install and use Delta Chat
- Enjoy ๐
- You can't talk with anyone, because no one uses your preferred FOSS, privacy respecting app.
- You try to convince people who don't care about privacy to use some obscure app, with higher learning curve, and lack of features to comunicate just with one person.
You can suceed in some cases, but it's not as simple, as just downloading privacy respecting app.
FOSS fanboys are so delusional they forget people don't even care for their weird apps. And if I remember correctly, Delta Chat is for XMPP
Not really, I like Delta Chat because the usability, no other app gave me the same peace of mind and reliability in bad connectivity areas (which I find myself often)
As for the family and friends that use it with me, they certainly don't use it because encryption and privacy, I don't even advertise the privacy and freedom much or try to make them uninstall whatever other apps they use for chatting, they use it because it is the way to reach me and it solves a problem for them.
And Delta Chat is not XMPP, at least for now
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10/10 foreveralone experience
@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.
Yes I use telegram daily, but generally everyone here where i live uses Facebook messenger.
@Comtief Try switching to Telegram. Meta is never an option. Between them and Google, you'll never have privacy.
My personal experience: 121 chats (just my family account I have several other accounts)
Idk why you are showing me this. I guarantee you that anyone I know has never heard of this app.
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...
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.
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
I don't know why you are telling me all this.
You wouldn't get it ๐ฌ
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I asked how we should commence to eat the rich and it typed out like five paragraphs before retracting everything and claim it didn't speak my language.
Just switch man. I'm using signal for 2-3 years but only recently completely deleted whatsapp. Some close folks are already there or have now created accounts. Some prefer to send SMS. I'm not the center of the universe so I can live with losing out on some groups (which ones do you even really need?) and lose chats with more distant folks.
Since my Parents are only on that for chatting, I can't switch. What options are there for me
โI will delete my WhatsApp on -date- because I can no longer justify using a product made by a company, Meta, that is in such stark contrast with my ethics.
You can reach me via Signal, a messenger that works just like WhatsApp. It is very easy to set up, but I will gladly help you do so.โ
What are they going to do? Not talk to you anymore because of a little piece of software that is so easily replaced? If so, is it even worth talking to them?
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Your parents can use something else to message you, for other people they can switch to SMS in worse case, just uninstall the app with a goodbye message once you are not there there will be some real reasons for other people to join you elsewhere,
There was a time where there was no WhatsApp and no one died because of it, true there might be some extra inconveniences but the question is if you have the will to do the change, I deleted WhatsApp and things are OK so far I am not using Signal either, I use Delta Chat and email mainly
Try to get them to switch to Signal if you can. I helped my 70+ year old mother switch with no problems because the UI is similar to WhatsApp and Telegram so it didn't take her long to get used to it.
Just delete the crap finally.
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