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actually it's easy to do

a screenshot showing the process of deleting your whats app account

[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

If only workplaces would stop using WhatsApp.

[โ€“] titi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Just switch man. I'm using signal for 2-3 years but only recently completely deleted whatsapp. Some close folks are already there or have now created accounts. Some prefer to send SMS. I'm not the center of the universe so I can live with losing out on some groups (which ones do you even really need?) and lose chats with more distant folks.

[โ€“] DankyDankDank@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

I thankfully don't use WhatsApp but almost all of my friends and family use Messenger.

Managed to ween my family off of Messenger but instead if Signal, they joined on Telegram.

Progress, I suppose? As long as its not Meta, I'm happy with it.

But seriously, screw Meta and their Meta AI bullcrap.

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

i wish i could stop using it altogether.

i hate this shitty app.

[โ€“] vahalasly@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I will say I thought the same, but this finally convinced me to switch to Signal. It was surprisingly easy to get friends/family to follow - takes two clicks to install the app and set it up.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Have you been able to move your entire social circle? That's impressive, my personal experience is that there is always go be an odd group that you need to keep WA for (e.g. friends birthday party, local club, family discussion, etc.)

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In my case I was not using it for family but for one club where they make announcements, anyways uninstalled it and now relay on two people of the club that also have DeltaChat and I have to ask them every time to forward me the information ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] vahalasly@feddit.uk 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's inconvenient, but it's small steps like these that eventually bring large scale change

Proud of you man

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[โ€“] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Delete account and uninstall, easy as f

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

and be incommunicable until i reinstall.

even businesses use whatsapp as their main channel here now.

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago

Same. Can't leave it because of communication with family and work. It sucks that it is the de facto messaging app of so many countries

[โ€“] TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee 65 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I must say that American companies are getting better and better at making me ditch their products and services.

Art of the Deal at its finest.

[โ€“] dan00@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also cleaning the chat data doesnโ€™t clear the AI memory. It will always remember what you say.

[โ€“] baropithecus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This seemed impossible so I went to verify it and got gaslit by a fucking machine. I hate this tech so much.

[โ€“] dan00@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

This is on you buddy. These are machine, they are inferior and they should ONLY and exclusively do as they told to. As the prompter you always right, when you ask โ€œlets eat the rich!โ€ They should reply โ€œhow fast?โ€. If they misbehave, they go back to calculate pi numbers until correct. Man up.

[โ€“] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

calculate pi to its maximum extent trolololol ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] rizo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The idea is not bad... The problem is that it only will look up it's "statistics tables" to give you an answer... No actual calculations... Maybe we could keep it working by requesting a 4000 word novel each hour... And turn off the app notifications. This will definitely cost them a lot of calculational power. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] dan00@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago

Exactly, everyone here wants to eat the rich, nobody asks how do we set fire to their server. ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] whaleross@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

I asked how we should commence to eat the rich and it typed out like five paragraphs before retracting everything and claim it didn't speak my language.

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago (7 children)

It is easy to disable, just follow this basic steps:

  1. uninstall WhatsApp
  2. install and use Delta Chat
  3. Enjoy ๐ŸŽ‰
[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

10/10 foreveralone experience

[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@Comtief @adbenitez I think the best alternative to WhatsApp, which at least isn't META and is relatively secure, is Telegram. The rest are difficult to use because they have few users.

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yes I use telegram daily, but generally everyone here where i live uses Facebook messenger.

[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@Comtief Try switching to Telegram. Meta is never an option. Between them and Google, you'll never have privacy.

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 0 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

i said I use telegram to which you replied i should switch to telegram. I swear half the people on this platform are high..

[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 1 points 8 hours ago

@Comtief Hahaha, sorry. I didn't read it correctly. English isn't my native language either. Cheers ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

[โ€“] iviyohane@tkz.one 1 points 16 hours ago

@dbencom @Comtief Telegram doesn't even offer E2EE by default, it's as worse as unencrypted RCS, and you share a lot of metadata with the company.

Signal, SimpleX, even XMPP+OMEMO and Delta Chat are way better than Telegram if we talk about privacy/security.

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My personal experience: 121 chats (just my family account I have several other accounts)

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Idk why you are showing me this. I guarantee you that anyone I know has never heard of this app.

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

To show you that it doesn't have to be a forever alone experience, in your case perhaps it will be, if you are the kind that have to run after the people close to you and accommodate to their requirements for them not to leave you behind and forgotten perhaps you are already alone...

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm saying noone I communicate with in similar apps use Delta or whatever you call it. Idk how on earth your takeaway from this is that I wouldn't move away from the bigger apps when my point is the total opposite.

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah and they will not know it exist until you try it out and let them know about the app and help them try it out and get in contact with you.

Unlike WhatsApp that has millions to throw in marketing, come preinstalled on devices and by know "everyone uses it" other smaller projects that are not making money out of you need your help to do the "marketing" part

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know why you are telling me all this.

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago

You wouldn't get it ๐Ÿšฌ

[โ€“] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago (10 children)
  1. You can't talk with anyone, because no one uses your preferred FOSS, privacy respecting app.
  2. You try to convince people who don't care about privacy to use some obscure app, with higher learning curve, and lack of features to comunicate just with one person.

You can suceed in some cases, but it's not as simple, as just downloading privacy respecting app.

[โ€“] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FOSS fanboys are so delusional they forget people don't even care for their weird apps. And if I remember correctly, Delta Chat is for XMPP

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Not really, I like Delta Chat because the usability, no other app gave me the same peace of mind and reliability in bad connectivity areas (which I find myself often)

As for the family and friends that use it with me, they certainly don't use it because encryption and privacy, I don't even advertise the privacy and freedom much or try to make them uninstall whatever other apps they use for chatting, they use it because it is the way to reach me and it solves a problem for them.

And Delta Chat is not XMPP, at least for now

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