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[–] maaaaaaaaat@jlai.lu 2 points 11 months ago

Where are you ..? China ?

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Setup a matrix bridge for WhatsApp. Run WhatsApp on a VM when you need to open the app. Tell them you don't have calls which they will get on signal.

[–] maaaaaaaaat@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago*

Oh wow nice idea, I'm gonna do it ASAP, thanks!

EDIT: after few research Ive seen that also : https://github.com/meinto/whatsapp-signal-bridge

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[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

So I have Whatsapp for regular people (most). My family switched to Telegram years ago. My GFs family uses only Signal. My brother refuses such things and made us download SimpleX.

Meanwhile I don't even want to receive messages.

[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago (10 children)

"I use signal. If you care about our friendship, you'll install it too."

I have friends that got it just for me. I also lost some so-called "friends"

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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm all for getting off anything meta, but come on. Someone not wanting to move to a chat service that's probably less convenient for them does not make them a "so called 'friend'" lmao.

If you're actually losing friends over this, that's quite sad.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Ghoelian@piefed.social 14 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Gradually. You don't have to get all your friends off Meta right now. Maybe some of them will, and they might push their friends to ditch meta as well.

Just keep trying. But totally alienating your friends also won't do much good for the whole perception of the movement. Becomes a lot easier to just think of that weird guy who won't talk to us anymore because of some app, rather than what it's actually about.

I feel like I worded that really badly, but I hope my point comes across.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

it sounds like you hit the nail on the head with marketing; the other apps needs a huge marketing budget.

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I don't value my privacy so much to lose my friends.

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[+] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world -6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I also don't give a s*** if somebody snoops about me planning a brunch with some random person.

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[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I definitely do though. Hey I'm planning a brunch here means corporations have a little more information about where you live, where you like to eat, who you have friends with, your friends weeknesses, social media can then try to inflict the group with different political opinions splitting up the friendship increasing depression and therefore the amount of time you spend on social media because it's your only escape from your depression. Just to list an example of what could happen.

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[–] stevestevesteve@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Maybe one of your less close friends turns out to be a serial killer. Unbeknownst to you now you've made some jokes and had brunch with them. Now a team of cops is going through everything you've ever texted anyone because it's unencrypted, correlating things to make you look horrible. Suddenly you're getting your life ruined.

There are cases of innocent people riding their bikes past an unknown crime scene getting arrested for murder because their phone was reporting their location to Google. Try explaining to your boss that you're missing work today because you're in jail for a murder charge. Privacy is important even when you think it's not and perhaps especially when you think it's not

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[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Hey look, there's normie's here on lemmy now! Your post is the type of naive stuff that gets a ton of traction on reddit.

Its usually more like, "I've got nothing to hide, let them look!", or whatever, but I like your version too.

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[–] ratel@mander.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

I managed to move my family and a few friends there but my main group chats and nonchalant gf are impossible to move over unfortunately.

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[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

I go one level deeper. I make me friends use matrix. They can use my server or someone else but I want them to meet me there.

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[–] UNY0N@lemmy.wtf 4 points 11 months ago

I made the jump to signal, and those that refused to come with got relegated to SMS.

But it's not always that easy. Sorry that you have to deal with that BS.

[–] Goldmaster@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

May be worth having a read up https://aboutsignal.com/blog/how-to-switch-from-whatsapp-to-signal/

Also there is watomatic.app which can automatically respond to a message saying you are on Signal.

[–] eodur@piefed.social 5 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Signal for reasonable people, Matrix bridges for everyone else.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

Matrix bridges to WhatsApp?

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[–] eodur@piefed.social 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

Yup. I run one for the few platforms I have to stay connected to. Sometimes things are delayed or messages look a little funny, but its better than keeping those apps on my phone.

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[–] sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

Cool, I didn't know it could do that!

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I only have it for the neighborhood group chat. Someone suggested to use Beeper for it. Anyone know if it’s safe?

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 8 points 11 months ago

Beeper is just as proprietary as whatsapp, all you'd be doing is adding another link in the corpo chain that's handling your messages

If you can't get off whatsapp, just locking down its permissions is probably a better move. Do consider never shutting up about signal in said group chat, though ;)

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[–] certified_expert@lemmy.world -1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

"I use signal. If you care about our friendship, you'll install it too."

I have friends that got it just for me. I also lost some so-called "friends"

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 52 points 11 months ago*

The best kinds of friendships are those where one makes demands under threat of ending the friendship.

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago

Not gonna lie, that's pretty toxic.

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[–] i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

“I use Facebook Messenger. If you care about our friendship, you’ll install it too.”

Now what?

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[–] persona_non_gravitas@piefed.social 1 point 11 months ago

It's not friends I miss though, it's community groups.