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Is it (still) worth trying to switch my family and friends from WhatsApp to Signal? (Read all of it, please.)

This may sound a bit dumb, but eh.

So when that WhatsApp privacy policy change thing happened in early 2021, I tried switching from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. Telegram kinda stuck with me since i still get news from there, but Signal... not really because I didn't care about privacy back then. Now, I want to make the switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and I have a few plans on how to do that. But, is it worth it, since most people in Türkiye use Whatsapp and even if I switch my family and friends over to Signal, they'll still use WhatsApp since most people are on there.

So, yeah. Should i try, or is it not worth doing? Let me know, also, thanks in advance!

(Note: Most of my family and friends don't really care about privacy.)

(Note 2: This was also posted in c/privacy@lemmy.ml, r/signal and r/privacy subreddits.)

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  • What's the point if they will keep their Whatsapp on the same devices they will use Signal?

    • Would still be good if the interest is in having E2E encrypted chats by default and for group chats.

    • I said this in Reddit, I will say it here too.

      "Well,

      (Note: Most of my family and friends don't really care about privacy.)

      So, it's kiiiiinda about my privacy, since I do NOT feel comfortable using a Meta product.

      Because most of my family have FB, FB Messenger, IG and/or (well, of course) WA."

      +I want to increase their privacy and security as well.

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