You’re not stuck. Just leave, and make people talk to you over Signal. If they’re not trying to talk to me on Signal or Matrix, I will never see it. This not only got me off of services like Messenger, but also showed who gave enough of a shit about me to go through Signal’s simple setup.
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PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Fuck I wish my old elementary school friends and parents wouldn’t use Messenger. I’m eternslly stuck on that platform.
GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yawnder@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
And they can see that you don’t give enough shit about them to use Messenger.
Two way street.
GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Two way street indeed, I didn’t say all of them followed me or anything like that. I lost contact with many doing this, as expected.
JiraiyaIsNoLyah@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Man… What happened to just texting your circle of friends?? I get by pretty well doing that. About half are on signal. The other half just text regular, which I’m cool with.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
i saw one person do something like this: messages JOIN ME ON SIGNAL(or anything not owned by Facebook and amazon) IF YOU DON’T WANT TO WELL WILL LOSE CONTACT SO PLEASE JOIN ME
im not sure on how well this will work but maybe exclude you’re family but try to get them to atleast WhatsApp but even better a private messager also consider xmpp/jabber and matrix for jabber i recommend calyx institute jabber server
billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 year ago
try to get them to atleast WhatsApp
WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook, so switching to that from Messenger is a bit like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Number358@lemmy.world 1 year ago
At least whatsapp has some sort of encryption
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Yeah but that doesn’t prevent them from snooping directly on the app. For example they can look at who you’re talking to the most, or extract topics of interest from your conversations (“talking about cats? let’s sell them cat food”)
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Telegram or Signal. Whatsapp is owned by Meta
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
WhatsApp is facebook, it’s not an improvement in the slightest
random65837@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nope, you’re not. That’s a choice. I have no shortage of people using privacy invading messengers, crazy thing, when I send them a SMS/MMS… they get it, like everybody does.
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You can trial out a new platform called beeper.com
It allows you to add all your chats to 1 platform. It’s in selected participants mode currently.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Ahh thank you for the Beeper reminder! I’m still on the waitlist tho. :(
LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yh same :-(
camr_on@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Does Whatsapp connect to messenger like Instagram does? Not sure it’s any better though, since it’s still owned by Meta. I wish I could get everyone on signal
10EXP@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
No, WhatsApp doesn’t.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Does Signal do end to end encryption? That’s why I use telegram.
camr_on@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, encryption and security is signal’s whole thing. They even removed the ability to send SMS a while back because they were prioritizing security over all else. Def check it out
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gotcha, thanks.
QueriesQueried@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Of course it does? That’s like one of the main headlining features of both Signal and Telegram, and why people were looking at either instead of Whatsapp. And it was even louder than Telegram about it, since telegram uses (or used) a closed source encryption, while Signal was vocally using an Open Source encryption standard if I remember correctly.