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I'd love to, but none of my friends use it unfortunately
After 3 years of use of signal, I have converted my Mom which cares about privacy too from shows she seen. Which allowed us to convert my Brother, with it being the main discussion app. I also converted my SO because of a problem we had on messenger that was scary, finally I was able to move my Best friend, which is also a member of the DND group I started which moved to Signal because others (Brother, Best Friend) where already on Signal
I got lucky. Back when that privacy scare with Whatsapp made mainstream news my Aunt asked in the extended family chat what alternatives there were. I responded that I use SIgnal with my friends (all 2 of them on Signal at the time) and just like that everybody switched. 2 hours later my entire paternal family are on Signal, and still are.
Damn I should have pushed harder when that incident with WhatsApp was all over the news. Only a few of my friends and a couple of family members switched.
Right now someone in my family is in China, and has been there for a decade now. For that, and because more where in China before, our family group is on WeChat. And the years left of work for them in China is coming slowly to an end, and I am extatic for the day I'll propose we move to Signal and away from this 2,71GB app
Sorry, but that's a pretty arrogant thing to say
Not to mention absolutely ridiculous. Dumping friends over their preferred messaging platform is literally what the green bubbles problem is.