? People in many countries use this like Americans use SMS/texting. In Japan, we use LINE instead. Korea mainly uses Kakaotalk and some LINE, etc. SMS just isn't really used in a number of countries by anyone of any age.
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Janis@feddit.de 1 year ago
noooo. please.keep boomers and the altright in their bubble. so sad to see the dumbasses leave threads so soon already. there needs to be a default platform for morons to share memes so the real world does not get polluted.
tiredofsametab@kbin.social 1 year ago
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
Main use of WhatsApp is SMS replacement. Has nothing to do with threads or anything like that. It is a free equivalent of messaging which is very convenient when you need to send messages abroad. What do you use for this? e-mail? Telegram? Serious question.
MiscreantMouse@kbin.social 1 year ago
I'm not the person you replied to, but I use Matrix for this, and it works very well for my purposes.
EnderWi99in@kbin.social 1 year ago
Signal for me personally. I'll never touch WhatsApp.
MxM111@kbin.social 1 year ago
But why? For video calls and simple messages what’s the difference? Both use end to end encryption. The interface is clear but WhatsApp has huge advantage in number of users.
Monologue@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
can you really verify they use e2ee? it’s not like you can look at the source code of their client or servers, all you can do is take their word for it and there have been companies lying about having e2ee before.
plus metadata collection, sure they might not able to collect what you send but who and when you send your messages are probably collected.