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Useless messenger (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] 108@kbin.social 21 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Not sure why anyone would use it. I certainly wouldn't.

[–] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 25 points 10 months ago

Couple reasons:

WhatsApp was its own company, took advantage of an open market in EU where SMS (and "international" phone calls?) were extra rate charges on mobile phones. Once every one got accustomed to using whatsapp Meta took it over and now we're stuck with it.

[–] meliaesc@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To communicate with anyone outside of the US, where it is extremely popular and is the main interaction with many businesses as well.

[–] Pfnic@feddit.ch 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's almost impossible not to sadly, at least if you want to reach everybody in ypur contacts... It was the first popular messaging app here and inertia prevents people from moving to better alternatives now.

[–] Octopus1348@thelemmy.club 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here almost everybody uses Viber or Messenger (I know Messenger's also Meta)

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

viber > anything owned by facebool

[–] Lolors17@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Threema > anything owned by giant corporations

[–] mayonaise_met@feddit.nl 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The reason is the network effect. I want to use signal or rather even an EU based messaging service, but everybody, including businesses, are on WhatsApp in my country.

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Younger ppl are on telegram, but that’s worse than WhatsApp so not much to be done

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

they should be using signal

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

In an ideal world, maybe. Hopefully we will see more of that thanks to RCS, since major players like WhatsApp, Message (Facebook) and iMessage will have to open up and be interoperable with other messaging systems.

So far, though, I'm stuck with WhatsApp (and iMessage for just one person!) and Telegram, nobody uses Signal here

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

convince new contacts to use signal that probably should be a good starting point

[–] nitefox@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

dude…