Hello,

It’s been a while since I started finding Whatsapp alternative, I found IRC, XMPP, Signal etc, however the thing is that I can’t convince other people to use Whatsapp, I can’t say that “ohh it’s bad for privacy” otherwise they will say “you are not a president, nobody cares about your messages”. also I don’t live in western country so I can’t just say “I don’t want to use Whatsapp” otherwise people will get mad saying “you are not a VIP, everyone uses whatsapp and you are not special”.

however I found a way so that people won’t blame me for not using Whatsapp, I have to somehow get banned from Whatsapp and then when people ask “why don’t you use whatsapp” then I can say “ohh umm I don’t know it stopped working, you can find me on Signal”. that way people will be ready to install Signal to talk to me.

what are your thoughts? is it even possible to get perma banned from Whatsapp?

    • whoareu@lemmy.caOP
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      20 hours ago

      That won’t work because people here think the USA is an ideal country and do anything to get USA citizenship.

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        19 hours ago

        They’re probably the ones trump is deporting at the moment, the irony. I’ve been using signal with family to accommodate the stubborn android users, and it’s been fairly close to parity with Apple messages in terms of features and use. Good compromise IMO.