This is snobbish and elitist. The evidence of this thread alone is that people who interact with this instance or use Lemmy generally also use Whatsapp. For many, it is convenient, relatively secure and private, and free. It engrained itself as the default communications platform in many countries, and Meta ownership doesn’t have any tangible impact on its use for anybody, so far as I can tell. The “people are stupid” line is just ignorant bollocks.
But if Facebook came up and bought my messaging service I would be looking for an alternative as soon as I could instead of just going “oh I used this before and don’t want to change”. Obviously if WhatsApp is your only option then use it but keep it as minimal as possible. Or just don’t give a fuck like 90% of people 🤷♂️
I’ve brought up other services with some of my active groupchats, but nobody else cares or wants to switch. Soooo I’m stuck in Messenger+Whatsapp, Discord, Groupme (Microsoft), and Slack (Salesforce). At least I got out of Snapchat?
This is snobbish and elitist. The evidence of this thread alone is that people who interact with this instance or use Lemmy generally also use Whatsapp. For many, it is convenient, relatively secure and private, and free. It engrained itself as the default communications platform in many countries, and Meta ownership doesn’t have any tangible impact on its use for anybody, so far as I can tell. The “people are stupid” line is just ignorant bollocks.
Sorry if it came off like that.
But if Facebook came up and bought my messaging service I would be looking for an alternative as soon as I could instead of just going “oh I used this before and don’t want to change”. Obviously if WhatsApp is your only option then use it but keep it as minimal as possible. Or just don’t give a fuck like 90% of people 🤷♂️
I’ve brought up other services with some of my active groupchats, but nobody else cares or wants to switch. Soooo I’m stuck in Messenger+Whatsapp, Discord, Groupme (Microsoft), and Slack (Salesforce). At least I got out of Snapchat?