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-212 hours 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
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.