When I was struggling to get my friends to join Signal, the main bottleneck was a friend whose friends used Signal to cheat on their partners 😳😔🤌🙄. Since my friend had a partner, they didn’t want to give off the wrong signal…
What did the trick was Elon Musk tweeting “Use Signal”, 40 million people downloading it in a day, and, perhaps critically, me deleting our WhatsApp group chat.
Hopefully switching to Matrix once easy native stickers are added to the main clients won’t be as hard.
They don’t really give good reasons other than not wanting to download another app and already having other working alternatives (although they are not privacy friendly).
I wish it was easier to get friends to switch.
Why don’t they? What are their reasons?
A fun anecdote.
When I was struggling to get my friends to join Signal, the main bottleneck was a friend whose friends used Signal to cheat on their partners 😳😔🤌🙄. Since my friend had a partner, they didn’t want to give off the wrong signal…
What did the trick was Elon Musk tweeting “Use Signal”, 40 million people downloading it in a day, and, perhaps critically, me deleting our WhatsApp group chat.
Hopefully switching to Matrix once easy native stickers are added to the main clients won’t be as hard.
They don’t really give good reasons other than not wanting to download another app and already having other working alternatives (although they are not privacy friendly).