• lustrum@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I’d love to switch to Signal and I do have 1 contact there. Everyone else uses FB or whatsapp and just doesn’t care. What am I supposed to do?

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      1 year ago

      What am I supposed to do?

      Decide if your privacy is more important than their convenience and your feelings of FOMO.

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.dev
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        1 year ago

        Exactly. When FB announced their metadata harvesting plans for WhatsApp, I decided I didn’t want to be part of the problem and deleted my account. You can’t make people quit a platform by whining about it. I’m on signal, telegram and good ol’ SMS if they want to reach me or vice versa.

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        1 year ago

        Right, but if I need to contact a friend or family. How am I supposed to do it without affecting privacy? If the other person doesn’t use Signal or else.