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malfisya@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
This is one of the train that impossible for me to get off. It is very ubiquitous in my country to use whatsapp instead of text. I must suck it up I guess. 😅
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Getting6409@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
It may not fit your exact needs, but my solution to WhatsApp and fb messenger is to bridge them with a beeper account. Of course you lose the calling ability, but if you're not using it for calls it is a good enough solution. The other caveat (at least with fb messenger) is you still need to check on your actual account if you get any legit messages from someone not on your list.
malfisya@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
This might be good middle ground. The last time I tried beeper, the apps is kinda .... suck tho. Well, at least it not full of ads!
Does it still require user to install their desktop app first?
Getting6409@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Not that I'm aware of, never even knew it was ever a requirement. I've only used the android client and the browser client. For whatever reason they don't really communicate the browser is out there for use. It's chat.beeper.com for anyone looking.
lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
[deleted]malfisya@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
The most important people in my life is my family, especially my parents. Teaching them to try new app to chat to me is easy enough but all of their friends and groups are still on whatsapp.
Making them juggle between two apps (separating how they interact to me and totheir friends) is not easy. Justifying it is even harder, they simply don't care (to understand) the implication.
Rather than make them confused and worried about not being able to contact me, I just have to accept the status quo. It is the conclusion I arrive at.
Must be nice tho to not use any Meta product. :)
Scolding7300@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9Ux8DFgMSM
Might give you some ideas on how to do that
Zak@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
A fair number of my contacts from countries where this is true also have Signal. If you don’t, I suggest installing it and seeing how many people are there.
If it’s hard to remember who uses what, start conversations from the contacts app instead of one of the messaging apps; in most cases it will tell you.
malfisya@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
Already did that months ago when they change the term of services and people are aware of it at the time. Many install Signal, tried them, signal got overloaded, experience degraded, people are back to Whatsapp. Now only dead account are there. Telegram is more popular but that is just jumping from crocodile's mouth to shark's.
Government agencies, company customee services all relies on Whatsapp. They have emails but if you want to get response in timely manners, Whatsapp is the way to go (Or twitter, again another bad alternatives).
At least it is still E2E (supposedly), so it is not all bad. Look, I know I sound pessimistic because I am (at least in this specific topic). I hope everyone else can do better than me, cheers!
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
WTF!? What country is that?
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’d hazard a guess that it’s Brazil.
sga@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
India
Zak@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I did not experience this, and I’ve been using Signal daily for years. Prior to 2020 or so, I experienced more unreliability and hesitated to recommend it to the average person.
I’m familiar with the problem though; in most of the EU and probably other places WhatsApp usage is so high that it’s a major inconvenience to avoid it entirely.
scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Signal has recently been giving me issues like taking forever to send and not properly notifying me about messages.