Same here. About 25% have picked up Signal, the others haven’t. Even though, like you say, they don’t have to drop WhatsApp to get Signal. They aren’t mutually exclusive.

And there’s no rhyme or reason for who starts using Signal. Some of my most tech-illiterate friends jumped on it, because they were sick of Facebook and Meta. As I’ve if them said: it’s not at all difficult to start using it. So it’s all about motivation.

It didn’t help that there are several other similar spots or there, like Viber. So some people who have multiple already installed don’t want to get yet another. I get that. But Signal is such a solid and unobtrusive app