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Ever convinced family or friends to leave whatsapp or facebook (piefed.social)

submitted 3 weeks ago by astro_ray@piefed.social to c/india@lemmy.ml

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I have started using privacy respecting software as much as I can for a while now. Particularly social media. I started with deleting my reddit account, and then one by one deleted twitter, instagram and all. The one thing I couldn't leave was whatsapp. I just cannot seem to leave it. Not just friends and family, but outside too. My mentor just use whatsapp for all types of communication except for some absolutely formal documents, where he uses email. Otherwise he doesn't seem to respond to email.

So, my question: If you have made the switch, have you convinced your peers to also make the switch?

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[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

To signal for a bit, and some to matrix, but the network effect is in effect

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

The accursed network effect

[–] BlastboomStrice@mander.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I have only managed to convince a part of my family to use signal when talking to me (another relative seems to be somewhat using it too, so that's a bit convenient to have them keep using it), but apart from that almost no-one got convince to use it or left it after like a week of usage.

At least there's simpleX now which has a lower entry barrier (just a username), so I might have better luck with it.

Edit: I saw this is the india community, oops, I'm from Greece😅

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

Lol, no worries, your story was still helpful

[–] kuroi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Government Departments are still using WhatsApp for their official communications to employees 🙂

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And so many uses gmail as well. NIC should give out more email to government departments.

[–] Summa@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Family! , I can't even convince my friends !!

[–] astro_ray@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Guess we can only convert like minded people

[–] perry@lemy.lol 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

text on green background: this person no longer uses whatsapp. please text or call on prav or quicksy: user@hostname. Large text: moved from whatsapp. small text: you can also use any other xmpp app. confused? see the url below https://katb.in/xmpp-guide

I changed my profile picture to something like this and quit all the nonfree social apps one by one after a few months. Currently I have onboarded 3 or 4 friends on XMPP with the profile pic, though they just call it Quicksy. Family still use whatsapp and have no means to text me other than sms.

EDIT: here's the template, feel free to make a copy and edit https://cryptpad.disroot.org/diagram/#/2/diagram/view/wSR3FAgY9EhEXhuuVnRsk9AvPYdEPFGFg2fOaL7y68w/

[–] autonomoususer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Frequently, see my recent posts.