Granted, the part

The globally recommended app by privacy and security experts, Signal, is now being downloaded massively and tops the Danish Google Play Store

is a little ironic, but you gotta push this winning tide and then work from that.

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    16 hours ago

    Perfect is the enemy of the good.

    Just see it as a first step. Signal is still better than WhatsApp being owned by Meta. If we get more people of WhatsApp, in the future there might be more European alternatives.

    There are no big European alternatives the majority of people are willing to switch.

    I got rid of WhatsApp last year myself and could only convince 8 people to use Signal. I tried Threema and Matrix, but most normal people are not willing to do this and don’t care they give up their data and so on…

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      16 hours ago

      Thank you for contributing to the critical mass o7

      I joined Signal for the very few people in my contact list that use it, but I am holding out for the further establishment / gaining traction of a non-walled-garden solution before I start evangelizing Signal… So that I don’t get more people to switch, and then after a few months/years have to try to get them to switch again e.g. to a Matrix solution (and once again losing my chat history in the process).