Problem is, you say go to delta, others say go to signal... Fragmentation doesn't help! It's like the linux problem - too many distros, all imperfect... Personally I won't agree to any facepalm t&cs, so have never used whatapp, and never missed it!
@Cs137 @aroom @pa27 signal introduced usernames so that you don't need to know the phone number of someone when setting up a chat but any signal chat has account IDs as members and signal retains a persistent accountid->phone number mapping in dynamodb on Amazon infrastructure as far as we understand the current deployment. So phone numbers are less visible on the surface level but the fundamental phone number binding is still there.
MoJoJo
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in reply to Graeme π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώ • • •@pa27 signal use phone number. some people don't like it. some find it really convenient to get to find your contact.
so it's not exactly the same user experience. signal is a straightforward alternative to whattsapp.
Schreini
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Delta Chat
in reply to Schreini • • •Chris Vogel
in reply to Delta Chat • • •In my experience this doesn't work: switching. People will not do that. They just won't. It's the overwhelming majority that will not switch.
Maybe we need migration paths: let my FLOSS-chat talk to their evil surveillance capitalism driven chat.
I think that bridges are an important step to make people consider changing.
Amte
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