Don't use WhatsApp or Telegram. There are better things to use. (Signal, Session and simplex chat)
lol.
"Don't use the messaging apps used by all your friends and family. Use another app so you cant contact them. "
Man, messaging is a nightmare. I use signal with a few of my closest contacts, whatsapp with most other people, sms as a fallback and for work I have to occasionally use Teams and fucking Viber (ugh). At least I managed to liberate myself from the clutches of Slack.
If only there was some standard way to get these apps to talk to each other so everybody could use what they want. Oh wait, there was, it was called XMPP, it worked perfectly and big tech fucking killed it and replaced it with the irritating clusterfuck that is the current status quo.
Matrix with Bridges does help a lot, though.
Alternatively Beeper. (Which is Matrix with Bridges)
This is pretty much the only thing stopping me from using another app
Then get them on a different app. Be a leader not a follower
Sure, I use Signal with some. But I will have to use WhatsApp to interact with most people. They won't switch just because I tell them to.
Luckily they don't have to switch. Your good friends from the European union have a solution for you (And the latest beta for whatsapp features the skeleton for their implementation of that standard)
Except Signal likely won't adopt that, as they already mentioned some time ago
Don't use WhatsApp or Telegram. There are better things to use. (Signal, Session and simplex chat)
lol. "Don't use the messaging apps used by all your friends and family. Use another app so you cant contact them. "
Man, messaging is a nightmare. I use signal with a few of my closest contacts, whatsapp with most other people, sms as a fallback and for work I have to occasionally use Teams and fucking Viber (ugh). At least I managed to liberate myself from the clutches of Slack.
If only there was some standard way to get these apps to talk to each other so everybody could use what they want. Oh wait, there was, it was called XMPP, it worked perfectly and big tech fucking killed it and replaced it with the irritating clusterfuck that is the current status quo.
Matrix with Bridges does help a lot, though. Alternatively Beeper. (Which is Matrix with Bridges)
This is pretty much the only thing stopping me from using another app
Then get them on a different app. Be a leader not a follower
Sure, I use Signal with some. But I will have to use WhatsApp to interact with most people. They won't switch just because I tell them to.
Luckily they don't have to switch. Your good friends from the European union have a solution for you (And the latest beta for whatsapp features the skeleton for their implementation of that standard)
Except Signal likely won't adopt that, as they already mentioned some time ago
All hail the European union
Wire..?