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Let's see if this finally gets people to switch. Remember to warn them about Telegram (not private and not EU friendly).

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[โ€“] Babalugats@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Realistically, the majority of people will not switch to threema @ โ‚ฌ5.99. It's already extremely difficult to get people to leave WhatsApp. They're not going to pay for it.

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/instant-messaging-apps

Signal isn't EU based, but afaik not profiteering or harvesting data.

EDIT:

There are quite a few EU based according to this.

https://alternativeto.net/software/facebook-messenger/?origin=eu

https://alternativeto.net/software/whatsapp/?origin=eu

Signal isn't EU based, but afaik not profiteering or harvesting data.

If anything is gonna replace Whatsapp it's gonna be Signal. At least going by what's currently available.