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I cant schedule an appointment at the vet with signal.
Well if you tell them you are using Signal and they adopt it, you sure can.
What is your imaginary boundary here where Telegram makes this easier somehow?
The problem is not that I'm not using signal (I am), its that I also have to use telegram and\or whatsapp if I want to contact anyone without sending them an sms, or a pigeon.
So all this bloat still affects me, whether I "just use signal" or not.
I'm not sure what part of the world you're in, so maybe there is a societal difference here, but last I checked, if you're running a business, it's not only run on chat apps. There are other venues to contact businesses to schedule things...
Central Asia, businesses here do not have websites. They put a listing on aggregators with a phone number and may be an instagram account.
Well sounds like a phone number is another option...
And make a call like a psycho? No thanks, Telegram it is (actually OP here is quite lucky, in my town it would be WhatsApp or Messenger only...).
Sure, if I want to pay per message/call. I could also hire a butler to do all my chores for me, alas I am not a Swedish royalty.
I doubt Signal is supported by their scheduling/desk software though, Telegram has pretty wide support.
there's this old thing called the telephone
or if they're insufficiently modern (in a good way) a website
"Hello sorry for calling you, can you repair a part of an electric oven? It looks like a thingy with a couple springs. No I can't send you a photo on whatsapp, do you mind quickly installing signal? No? What about email? You're going to respond in 3-5 business day? Yeah sure I can survive that long on raw potatoes"
If you can afford existing without big tech, I'm honestly jealous. I'm willing to go quite far for my principles (like I have a phone with graphene) but at a certain point life just gets too difficult. I'm barely above water on my adult-ing as it is 🤷♀️
I genuinely don't understand what's wrong with email in this situation? Stay on the phone with them until the email arrives?
If you can't see what would bother me in that situation, me explaining it further will not help, sorry.