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/privacy@lemmy.ml, r/signal and r/privacy subreddits.)
Just ghost them by deleting your account on WhatsApp.
Thinking of that but that would probably make them (my family and/or friends) mad lol.
I am posting some statuses and changing my profile pic saying “Contact me on Signal”.
Advocate for your preferred platform, help people install it when you can. Prefer to talk to them in that platform. Push it to your social network slowly. Don’t try to move everyone at once. Don’t get mad at people who don’t want to move. But you will have success.
Not directly relevant for family, but I’ve also been considering SimpleX Chat. It doesn’t require a phone number or username.
it’s always worth it, it shows them that there are alternatives and also people like you who care about privacy and freedom from surveillance capitalism