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Where the fuck do you live, heaven???
Fucking adopt me
If I even dare suggest this, my family disowns me
I'll reiterate that this was very much not the expected result.
Ive been chatting to my brother and sister on signal for I thinkn3 years now. TODAY Sister asks me "is Brother on Signal too?" (They've been chatting on apple iMessage-text thing this whole time. Not knowing they are BOTH on signal, just not chatting through there)
Mom is starting to chat to me on signal, but its probably a 30% success rate at best. (Mom also on iPhone)
One day, apple will change their Terms and Conditions enough to kick my family enough to leave, but it is not this day...
Fuck yeah
I was getting my family on board and then a week later Signal dropped SMS/MMS support and my family uninstalled Signal. Frustrating.
Maybe I can try again with...everything going on.
I literally stopped using it when that was taken away. I understand why but it was the single biggest use feature for me.
I had a similar experience
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Same here. Switching the whole family to Signal was much easier than expected when I, the trusted IT professional laid out all the reasons they should.
I should look for a clear and simple list of reasons, published somewhere to share with family and friends. ADHD and lazy stand in my way.
- Secure, both from governments and advertising agents.
- Simple to use, easy to master.
- All the smartest people who know, use it.
Oh, you're a trusted IT professional? Must be nice.
It is a blessing and a curse.
My friends and I would love to switch to Signal but every time we try it we just find that the app isn't very nice to use and a lot of functionality we have come to take for granted is missing. Has it improved recently or is that still the case?
What... What sort of functionality? I struggle to think of something it lacks as a messaging app....
I can imagine live location and stickers. Like all the stickers from WhatsApp can’t be transferred.
Live location is shared as needed. This means the app isn't consciously transmitting your location, but you can send your location whenever you want by pressing the + then location. This design choice is more private.
As for the stickers, yes, your WhatsApp ones won't transfer (unless something changed), but they have plenty premade packs to choose from and you can make your own sticker packs (super easy).
I see that, and I have signal, I just know I won’t make my friends move there unless there’s a big shock that moves everyone. I’m also not convinced signal is future proof in terms of privacy (open to your argument against, it’s just a hunch)
Let me explain the power of the stickers. We have made and shared stickers with each other for many years. These stickers are ourselves, edited memes, pictures we have created from videos. They are extremely contextual and can’t be replaced with packs. I don’t think we should underestimate the power of this. It sounds ridiculous but it’s like forcing a friend group to stop with half their inside jokes that have built up over years.
WhatsApp doesn’t own the concept of stickers. It was invented by a Japanese messaging app. I think its possible we can push for a requirement for messaging apps to sync stickers across platforms.
Well, I suppose. I've found that my keyboard has most of that, so I don't need it in the apps I use.
I cannot find anything lacking in the app that exists in the default texting app. If you would like to provide specific examples, I can possibly give a better answer.
All the stickers you have in WhatsApp. For almost all my friends it’s one of the main thing that keeps them from switching. I also just noticed it doesn’t have live location.
I used a bot to transfer some in the past, it wasn't the simplest solution but it exists. I don't remember what it was called anymore unfortunately
Everywhere I’ve searched the solution is to transfer only one at a time.
I've never once used WhatsApp and ... Honestly don't really know what stickers are in this context.
For location, I wrote a whole paragraph that I then realized came from a place of privilege. I will acknowledge that that's on me.
But what are stickers?
Stickers are quite big in some countries. They are slightly bigger emojis that use gifs or pics that people themselves can make. Some of my group chats are filled with memes with my friends faces on them. We communicate a lot through these. Make up our own moods and ways to express ourselves. When a new sticker is used in another group chat we sometimes find it so hilarious that we share it in another. WhatsApp makes it very difficult to transfer stickers away. You have to do it one by one.
~~Reddit, I know, but here~~ Archived link as an easy way to transfer your stickers from Whatsapp to Signal en masse.
Edit. Changed reddit link to archived link.
Thanks for sharing, the link doesn’t load though.
About your comment: thank you for teaching me.
About what it says: I don't know how best to express my frustration, so I'm just going to say ... Actually I can't even think of a positive way to share my thoughts.
It's cool that you're able to put yourself out there that way. It's very upsetting that Meta gets to decide whether or how you do so.
I share your frustration, it’s yet another trick such that WhatsApp doesn’t have to compete.
Signal is easy to use, but I think mainly that some people might say that it's "boring". The motif and colour is not as jazzy and lighter as WhatsApp, and people like jazzy and light colours.
I prefer to speak to face to face with my family. Once a year at Christmas is plenty.
I feel that, but unfortunately it's not always respected.
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My friends group and I switched years ago. Had things we weren't comfortable saying with fascists in control of the government the first time around.
We have the messages set to auto-delete after 1 week. We've been debating changing that to 24 hours cuz this fascist train ain't slowing down.
Though I recognize the potential wisdom, I don't know that I could (yet, at least) get my family on board with auto delete.
My family used to use Signal after the whole WhatsApp fiasco a few years ago. Everything was going fine until we switched back because of a family emergency. I suggested switching back several times after that, but to no avail :(
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I've talked friends and family into using Signal. Some of my family still insists on using FB Messenger though.
One of my friends still uses google hangout to talk with me. I'm the only person they talk to on there. I ask them every so often to switch to signal. It's, like, trivial to install. it's free. They won't do it. It's too much.
I do not understand ADHD depression brain and I want to be kind but I'm also like "just give me your phone I'll do it".
Rough. My aunt is like that. Every time I log into hangout, I see a bunch of messages from her and kept telling her I'm not active.
She suggested we switch to Facebook. I cant deal with this.
Getting used to a new UI can be stressful and taxing to the audhd brain. If it's your own choice that stress and effort can be fun, it can be an adventure. But if you perceive the world around you to be forcing you into it, it feels like being attacked. Other people forcing you into an exhausting situation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_demand_avoidance
I had a meltdown for most of a day the last time I updated Discord on My phone.
I just look at this picture and then all is well
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Everyone in my fiancée's family is installing signal except her brother. I guess he will miss out on planning (or I will)
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