• akilou@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    I’ve been using Signal since like 2016 and have not seen any appreciable adoption rate whatsoever within my social network.

    I used to actively try to get people to use it but I got enough ambivalent or negative responses that I just stopped asking.

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        11 months ago

        Exactly. And I gave up trying even when it was “easier”. Not to mention, since it can’t do SMS anymore, I actually helped my mom. stop using it, because then she’d need 2 different messaging apps. She and I now use Google Messages to text and whatever Google is calling the integrated video chat app now.

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        11 months ago

        Yeah, a new messaging app is definitely a hard sell for me if it’s data/wifi only. I have Discord for unimportant internet conversations that can wait for me to burn data and texting for important things like work because I get unlimited texts. Having a separate app for a couple of people would be annoying.

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      10 months ago

      I seriously don’t understand the resistance. It doesn’t lack any features, people have 40 thousand apps on their phone anyway - just install one more if you want to talk to me?