minus-squareHiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's a good alternative to messenger that I can plausibly convince friends to move to?linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-22 months agoI’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications. You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc. Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it. It usually answers most of their questions. linkfedilink
minus-squareHiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Github Enshitification, This comment has been minimized. Sign in to viewlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoThis is why enshittification might be a good thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯ linkfedilink
I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.
You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc.
Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.
It usually answers most of their questions.