Comment on Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why are you being intentionally disingenuous?

  I will say it again just so it’s stated.
  People are not going to move to another service unless they can obviously see the benefit in moving to that service. People who are not technically inclined (that doesn’t mean stupid) are not going to see the benefit.

  Don’t be rude about people you don’t know anything about. Don’t insult their intelligence just because they’re not as interested in a very niche area of technology as you are.

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  • VintageGenious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What I said is that smart people can be convinced to move to another platform. Most of my friends are not technically inclined, but it was easy to make them use it, at least to chat with me.

    What you did is change “smart people” with “people who already want to move”, which is not the same. You then said it’s not something you can choose (as you cannot choose to be rich). But I answered that you can actually choose your friends.

    Never did I say people who are not interested in niche technologies are not smart. My statement can be rephrased in an equivalent statement “people who cannot be convinced to change are not smart”, and I stand to it.

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