Refusing to use Signal: "I have too many messaging apps" (lemmy.ml)

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Not sure if any of you have encountered the same resistance to using Signal. Some of my cousins refused to use Signal because they are already using "too many chat apps" (e.g. WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, Line, Snapchat, etc.). To them, Signal will just be another chat app among their numerous other chat apps. I understand that jumping between so many messaging apps imposes some kind of cognitive and maintenance burden. What are some ways to convince such people to use Signal?

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[-] animist@lemmy.one -1 points 1 year ago

ITT: people subscribing to a community for a free app they no longer use so they can keep bashing it for removing the one feature that kept memaw using it

People are EXTREMELY entitled

[-] Prootje@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

There are few things as annoying as FOSS and privacy evangelicals. They keep insisting that non polished and terribly designed apps are somehow supreme to use as stuff that has proven to work long time ago. Why should people accommodate 1 dude who wants to use a special app. In the case of signal, if you dont use WhatsApp or other critical mass app, ill just send you a text messages through SMS if needed.

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