Mostly because of the 400+ who remained on WhatsApp, the 45 of 50 decided to move back and the 5 probably are running both apps
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TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
During the peak of Whatsapp Controversy, I had 50 out 450+ contacts on Signal. Now it is just 5 people.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
True. They stick to WhatsApp as all th convo goes there and it laziness to switch over, copy data and all
KillSwitch10@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Signal shot it’s self in the foot removing sms capabilities. Tragic.
moitoi@feddit.de 1 year ago
This is US defaultism. People doesn’t care about sms capabilities outside the US. The US isn’t a huge market for Signal.
Acamon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think it did effect things. SMS is weirdly popular in the US (i think it’s might be cause they didn’t use it much in the 90s?) but people I know in France and UK still use texts for some things, even if messaging apps are where most of communication happens (French people even use mms which is insane).
I know that I managed to convince a number of tech-shy people (including parents) to get Signal by telling them replaced their sms app, so it wasn’t a whole extra app / network they needed to use. It was great for me because I could ditch WhatsApp completely. But when signal stopped supporting sms they went back to just whatsapping and texting, so I cracked and reinstalled WhatsApp to keep in touch with them.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Liberia
TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 1 year ago
No one I know use SMS for chat. The last SMS I had sent was 3 years ago.
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I only use SMS for some communication because the only other form of communication my phone can do is calls. But I have to be careful with that because they’re paid and not unlimited.