• Waldelfe@feddit.org
    3·
    11 days ago

    Unfortunately I have just one contact who is actively using signal :(. Everybody else is on Whatsapp.

  • tiredofsametab@fedia.io
    3·
    11 days ago

    100% (of zero, but still). Japan uses LINE primarily which has its own issues, but no one is moving particularly with integrated payment processing and native-level japanese support.

  • atro_city@fedia.io
    2·
    12 days ago

    I did the switch a long time ago, but most people I know still use WhatsApp, even if they use Signal just to talk to me. Actually, I don’t think there’s a single person I know who just has Signal.

    Some people just recently found out that WhatsApp belongs to Facebook and were floored. But not enough to get rid of it. There’s even a friend of a friend who refuses to install Signal - even in this political climate, despite being a vocal critic of the USA. Some people are just hypocrites.

  • 211@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    11 days ago

    None has moved completely, but two family members and one friend have installed Signal to chat with me. Contacts are ok, people know I don’t have WhatsApp and use SMS in stead, but social neighborhood/hobby/association groups won’t move and it often leaves me out of the loop unless they remember to toss an email.

  • dumblederp@aussie.zone
    2·
    12 days ago

    It’s not popular in Australia. We mostly still use traditional sms/text. My friends in .uk and .nl complain that I don’t have whatsapp but I retort with complaints that they don’t use signal.

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    I have like 10 contacts in Signal and 3 in threema, none of which are close friends or family. Everyone still uses whatsapp. I think it would take something like a big security breach for people to switch. Just the prospect of having your personal data stolen and supporting fascist enablers doesn’t seem to be enough.

  • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
    1·
    12 days ago

    My work is on WhatsApp using several groups to manage info, my landlord set up a WA group and every tenant is required to be in it, my extended family communicates everything through WA groups, my friends and direct family were on Telegram because of me but then Durov’s arrest happened and I don’t think I can convince them again, I’m cooked LMAO

  • theblips@lemm.ee
    1·
    12 days ago

    It’s trending backwards tbh. Last year I got most of my friends to use Signal, but they for some reason uninstalled en masse this month

    • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
      2·
      12 days ago

      WhatsApp has actively been saying it uses the Signal protocol and that they cannot read your messages, the files you send or listen on your calls. It does that on its own Status feature, its blog, channel and even website ads (which worked on tech-illiterate people that can’t use an adblocker)

      At least in the Netherlands, it’s very actively pushing a “You don’t need Signal, just us” message.

  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
    1·
    12 days ago

    Most of them. Family is fully on Matrix/Signal/Threema. Close friends are all on Signal. Some acquaintances are still WA-only, but I’ve stopped telling people that I have WA/Telegram, so new contacts are Signal/Matrix/Threema only.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
    1·
    12 days ago

    WhatsApp, I don’t think anyone. It’s pretty much inevitable here in Germany. But I’ve had several friends delete their Facebook and old Twitter accounts during the past months. I don’t really know what Apple users do. I wouldn’t be surprised if they just keep using iMessage and whatever services are part of Apple’s ecosystem. I mean that’s kind of why people buy Apple products in the first place.