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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!

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Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Government agencies…relies on Whatsapp

WTF!? What country is that?

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- alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  I’d hazard a guess that it’s Brazil.
  
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  - malfisya@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Wrong continent ;)
    
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- sga@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  India
  
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  - malfisya@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Wrong country ;)
    
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    sga@lemmings.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I said India, because I am an Indian, and our government also does use whatsapp. In some way, our countries have some kinship
    
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Zak@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

signal got overloaded, experience degraded

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.

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- 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.
  
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  - 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.
    
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    scintilla@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Android and iOS. I’ll have to see if it’s better now though.
    
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