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Zak@lemmy.world 1 week agoA 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
WTF!? What country is that?
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d hazard a guess that it’s Brazil.
malfisya@piefed.social 4 days ago
Wrong continent ;)
sga@lemmings.world 1 week ago
India
malfisya@piefed.social 4 days ago
Wrong country ;)
Zak@lemmy.world 1 week 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 1 week ago
Signal has recently been giving me issues like taking forever to send and not properly notifying me about messages.
Zak@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Android, iOS, or desktop?
I’ve noticed the occasional slow delivery, but I have had reason to believe the recipient has an unstable internet connection when that has happened.