Absolutely none.
To my surprise, through recent events, a long standing friend group chat migrated from wa to signal, sure, thats only 7 people but 5 of them installed signal for it which is quite the big step
Nice!
It’s not popular in Australia. We mostly still use traditional sms/text. My friends in .uk and .nl complain that I don’t have whatsapp but I retort with complaints that they don’t use signal.
Network effect’s a bitch.
99% WhatsApp.Yeah, it’s tough work to get people to change. So far I managed to convince my family and a buddy of mine to get Signal and they only did it so they can communicate with me after I told them I won’t be using Whatsapp. The vast majority of people told me it’s too much of a bother to switch. They know where to find me anyway.
I gave up on the ideea of convincing people to ditch Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok. It’s a lost cause.
I have like 10 contacts in Signal and 3 in threema, none of which are close friends or family. Everyone still uses whatsapp. I think it would take something like a big security breach for people to switch. Just the prospect of having your personal data stolen and supporting fascist enablers doesn’t seem to be enough.
I did the switch a long time ago, but most people I know still use WhatsApp, even if they use Signal just to talk to me. Actually, I don’t think there’s a single person I know who just has Signal.
Some people just recently found out that WhatsApp belongs to Facebook and were floored. But not enough to get rid of it. There’s even a friend of a friend who refuses to install Signal - even in this political climate, despite being a vocal critic of the USA. Some people are just hypocrites.
Sorry to hear
At least they use Signal to talk to me, and sometimes only me, so that’s a good thing. Real homies :)
You have a social circle?
I do, and I guess most of the people on Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed do as well
You do have a good personality!
Thank you!
100% (of zero, but still). Japan uses LINE primarily which has its own issues, but no one is moving particularly with integrated payment processing and native-level japanese support.
Unfortunately I have just one contact who is actively using signal :(. Everybody else is on Whatsapp.
I’ve given up, gotten some really harsh reactions from everyone
Yeah, it’s like they feel personally attacked
It’s trending backwards tbh. Last year I got most of my friends to use Signal, but they for some reason uninstalled en masse this month
WhatsApp has actively been saying it uses the Signal protocol and that they cannot read your messages, the files you send or listen on your calls. It does that on its own Status feature, its blog, channel and even website ads (which worked on tech-illiterate people that can’t use an adblocker)
At least in the Netherlands, it’s very actively pushing a “You don’t need Signal, just us” message.
Oh wow
Or as one Dutch news aggregator put it: A charm-offensive
Zero. Stuck on WhatsApp.
No-one has moved off WhatsApp to Signal, I’d probably encourage them to go to Matrix at this point.
I don’t do Facebook, just lurk under a pseudonym so I can follow some groups that only post there.
Explaining Matrix to new users is pretty hard. Signal looks and feels exactly like WhatsApp though. It’s much easier to understand for new users (at least in my experience).
Same here
I would do Matrix but doesn’t that require hosting your own server?
Not at all. There are plenty of instances available to join, although most people default to matrix.org (including me).
Ah cool, interesting I’ll check it out then.
Definitely do, it is the default secure messaging service used by folks on the Fediverse. There is a Buy European room - see sidebar for a link
None has moved completely, but two family members and one friend have installed Signal to chat with me. Contacts are ok, people know I don’t have WhatsApp and use SMS in stead, but social neighborhood/hobby/association groups won’t move and it often leaves me out of the loop unless they remember to toss an email.
Here in germany signal is quite common nowadays.
I never had whatsapp. I use signal since 2017/2018. back then i had 3 contacts. At some point there was a big movement away from whatsapp - i think because of their terms oft usw changed?. Sadly most oft my friends first moved to Telegramm cause it was more convenient than signal back then. But with covid and more information on Telegramm most of them shifted to signal. Some of it was my work but many oft them just changed by themself.
Even my large family group with grandmas, Cousins etc. is entirely on signal. All of my friends are. New colleagues are. But this was already before the current movement.
However, whatsapp is still the default in germany. Many of my friends and family have both, signal and whatsapp. And it depends a lot on your bubble. I was lucky with my bubble.
Thank you for sharing
