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• noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  there’s this old thing called the telephone

  or if they’re insufficiently modern (in a good way) a website

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  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Hello sorry for calling you, can you repair a part of an electric oven? It looks like a thingy with a couple springs. No I can’t send you a photo on whatsapp, do you mind quickly installing signal? No? What about email? You’re going to respond in 3-5 business day? Yeah sure I can survive that long on raw potatoes”

    If you can afford existing without big tech, I’m honestly jealous. I’m willing to go quite far for my principles (like I have a phone with graphene) but at a certain point life just gets too difficult. I’m barely above water on my adult-ing as it is 🤷‍♀️

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    • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I genuinely don’t understand what’s wrong with email in this situation? Stay on the phone with them until the email arrives?

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      • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If you can’t see what would bother me in that situation, me explaining it further will not help, sorry.

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well if you tell them you are using Signal and they adopt it, you sure can.

  What is your imaginary boundary here where Telegram makes this easier somehow?

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  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I doubt Signal is supported by their scheduling/desk software though, Telegram has pretty wide support.

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  • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The problem is not that I’m not using signal (I am), its that I also have to use telegram and\or whatsapp if I want to contact anyone without sending them an sms.

    So all this bloat still affects me, whether I “just use signal lol” or not.

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    • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not sure what part of the world you’re in, so maybe there is a societal difference here, but last I checked, if you’re running a business, it’s not only run on chat apps. There are other venues to contact businesses to schedule things…

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      • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Central Asia, businesses here do not have websites. They put a listing on aggregators with a phone number and may be an instagram account.

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