European here, I did use WA until Meta (Facebook back then) bought it. Then I typed up a copypasta that said something like:
Because Facebook is buying WhatsApp, I am leaving the platform. You can reach me on these apps: [Link to installer for Signal] [Link to installer for Telegram]
I have since set up a Matrix server that puppets for Telegram so I don’t have the actual client installed anywhere.
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I deleted Whatsapp a few years ago when I stopped working (would have been more difficult at my work). So now about 90% of my friends etc are on Telegram, and the rest have to phone or e-mail me. I see a few businesses offer some sort of Whatsapp line, but I phone or e-mail them. Just my fridge repair guy has this irritating habit of doing my card payment here and says the receipt will be sent electronically, but obviously it gets sent by Whatsapp and I don’t get it. I detest that assumption that “everybody is just on Whatsapp”. It’s not any sort of official standard like SMS is.
Personally, I really want to see E2EE open standards coming to messengers, like we have e-mail talking to other e-mail servers.
I really think it wouldn’t be that hard to make a law that messengers have to respect some minimal protocol for interoperability, like RCS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services
If EU can force phone makers to have USB ports, it can make messangers respect RCS.
I’m not sure RCS is yet complete enough. It was really designed with replacement of SMS in mind. It also needs to work independently of any phone number and ensure full E2EE.
short answer: no, i can’t
Yes. I’ve never used whatsapp.
Sms, signal, email, teams, discord, matrix, matters most, and sometimes Facebook messenger. Its always news to me that people outside of the US use WhatsApp.
Yea, I can just use SMS / Teams / Signal / email depending on the context.
I can telle you in north africa(especially in morocco) it’s impossible. Period. You don’t even ask if you have whatsapp
From Canada and definitely. Most people here use SMS, but my main communication method is Signal.
For my day job I deal with people all over the world and WhatsApp is the only constant among them. If not for that I would’ve quit this data-harvesting abomination
Impossible. Everybody I know uses WhatsApp.
I usually ask of people have telegram and I’ll use that with them instead if they do.
