This may sound a bit dumb, but eh.

So when that WhatsApp privacy policy change thing happened in early 2021, I tried switching from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. Telegram kinda stuck with me since i still get news from there, but Signal… not really because I didn’t care about privacy back then. Now, I want to make the switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and I have a few plans on how to do that. But, is it worth it, since most people in Türkiye use Whatsapp and even if I switch my family and friends over to Signal, they’ll still use WhatsApp since most people are on there.

So, yeah. Should i try, or is it not worth doing? Let me know, also, thanks in advance!

(Note: Most of my family and friends don’t really care about privacy.)

(Note 2: This was also posted in c/[email protected], c/[email protected] communities, the m/[email protected] magazine and r/signal and r/privacy subreddits.)

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    1 year ago

    Same as you. I’m still using telegram for groups, but signal has became absolutely useless. I also feel like that developers made it heavier by adding support for animated emoticons and stickers and dumbshit just to attract more users (it probably didn’t worked). Rn I prefer Session when it comes to privacy and encryption. It uses a blockchain-based decentralized network which grants a great amount of layers of privacy.