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mereo@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoThe problem will be to convince your friends and family to use Signal, and that's really not obvious.
Comment on WhatsApp's new AI feature lets you rephrase and adjust the tone of your messages | TechCrunch
mereo@piefed.ca 2 weeks agoThe problem will be to convince your friends and family to use Signal, and that's really not obvious.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That surprisingly wasn’t that hard, actually.
One side of the family already settled on Threema for communication years ago, the other side I had to first show it to and help with installing, but now they are even using it in other contexts.
And apparently I live in a bubble that is quite open to Signal, so most of the people I know at least use it in parallel to WhatsApp. And for the rest there is still RCS.
The actual hard part are (since I became a parent) all the WhatsApp groups that exist for most kinds of organized child activity, including distributing much of the crucial information regarding school.
Also at my wife’s work WhatsApp is standard for coordinating with the colleagues.
For that purposes we use an old customized WhatsApp-only smartphone, that is used by the family like some old-fashioned fixed phone-terminal, only for messaging…