Eh, whatsapp isn't ideal and its owner is one of the big devils of today, but it's the only way to send and receive instant messages among billions of people. I despise it, but it's the only way I can contact people. Needless to say, they don't give a single flying fuck about privacy.

Whatsapp outages make people migrate to Telegram for 1-2 days at most, nobody ends up staying there. Signal? I've only ever met three other people in RL who have even heard of it, and I work in IT.

A more apt comparison would be to languages. Whatsapp is english: clunky, weird, full of nonsense, but it's what "everyone talks". Signal would probably be lojban or esperanto.

[–] Asymptote@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm not sure I have all of them, but I regularly use (privately)

encrypted email
unencrypted email
text
Meta Facebook Messanger
Meta Instagram messages
Meta WhatsApp
Signal
Telegram
Microsoft Teams (yes, even privately)

I'm tired boss.

[–] canuckkat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Look into Beeper! It just got RCS support in its last update. Not sure if they plan on supporting Teams though.

If you're tech savvy though, look into setting up your own Matrix server for a Teams bridge.

[–] kalipike@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beeper looks amazing but is waiting list only.

[–] canuckkat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A very short one. It's technically open to everyone now!

[–] kalipike@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Well that's great news! I joined the wait-list last week and got an email saying they'd get back to me when I could get access.

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