Yes, i hate it!

A clear example of American Exceptionalism

Stepped away from whatsapp completly two years ago and told friends & family & wprking groups that i don't wanna force anyone to switch over but signal will be the only broader known messenger i will use from now on. A lot of resistance met but slowly more people installed it and also some groups fo...

I’m surprised signal hasn’t taken off more

You know I am. 🤺

This seems like a really important observation. Nostr whatsapp incoming!

keet.io seems like a promising project!

in my country, it's ALL Facebook groups. Same shit, but yeh

I swear I really don’t understand why. The only explanation is really the first mover advantage in terms of encrypted messaging apps, catchy name and “good” UI. I have a feeling there’s another explanation related to culture that we can’t understand unless we live there. The other expla...

Absolutely true in Egypt. WhatsApp is all over the place. My husband working with all his vendors for his construction project? Every single one on WhatsApp.

The network effect is strong with this one. When your mom tells you to join the WhatsApp group you can only say yes mom

Yeah in Brazil doctor's appointments go through whatsapp, even banks integrate with whatsapp to provide money transfers via Pix (instant payments)

Yep. All WhatsApp here

Yeah here in the UAE it's common for services and delivery guys to assume they can contact you on whatsapp for the phone number given.

And even the spams there have reached the level of spam call and emails…

Interesting. I have never used it. not once. USA proud baby. 😄

Not using it - and I still exist. Anyone who wants to contact me has to do it a different way. Life’s good.

Keet.io

I have a pet peeve on WhatsApp. I have absolutely no reason to use it except to talk to my dad, who *does* use it. I'm trying to get everyone off of it, and go to Telegram, the other popular coordination app. But I understand that Telegram is not much better in terms of privacy.

There was dozens of p2p messengers in the early-mid 2000s which were private, decentralized and secure, did we literally lose all that tech or are some of them still functional?

Signal and Threema are big in Germany among doctors, lawyers, business executives etc.

so far I resisted to join whatsapp, using signal, tg instead.

LINE (super app) for Japan and South Korea.

Check: https://SecureMessagingApps.com rate 🟩=3 🟨=1 🟥=0 Result 86 Threema = 86 Security Points = most secure Messenger 81 SimpleX Chat 80 Signal 77 Session 68 Wire 61 Wickr (Amazon) 56 Element / Matrix 37 Apple iMessage 32 WhatsApp 27 Telegram 26 Facebook Messenger 10 Microsoft Skype