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Subject: Re: whatsapp interoperability
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:21:31 +0200
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On 10.09.24 17:47, s|b wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:35:17 +0200, Steve Hayes wrote:
> 
>> I've been using Signal, but it seems everyone else I know, except my
>> immediate family, uses WhatsApp.
> 
> I was using both, but finally decided to drop WhatsApp. I sent a message
> to several people... nobody switched. I don't care. 

That is why nobody switched.

> My most important
> contacts (mother, sister, a couple of friends) were already using
> Signal. Non Signal users can text me through old school SMS.

Did ever someone do up to now? And who cares?

WhatsApp is for housewives and adolescents.

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