This may sound a bit dumb, but eh.
So when that WhatsApp privacy policy change thing happened in early 2021, I tried switching from WhatsApp to Signal and Telegram. Telegram kinda stuck with me since i still get news from there, but Signal… not really because I didn’t care about privacy back then. Now, I want to make the switch from WhatsApp to Signal, and I have a few plans on how to do that. But, is it worth it, since most people in Türkiye use Whatsapp and even if I switch my family and friends over to Signal, they’ll still use WhatsApp since most people are on there.
So, yeah. Should i try, or is it not worth doing? Let me know, also, thanks in advance!
(Note: Most of my family and friends don’t really care about privacy.)
(Note 2: This was also posted in c/[email protected], c/[email protected] communities, the m/[email protected] magazine and r/signal and r/privacy subreddits.)
It’s really only worth it if you or your family need the privacy features. It’s probably gonna be an uphill battle unless you can convince them of the privacy benefits. Even if you do convince them, Signal isn’t 100% feature identical to WhatsApp, so that will annoy your family when a feature they like is missing. It could also be looking for a useful feature that signal has that WhatsApp doesn’t, and see if that is a viable selling point. For me, it was group calls. When Hangouts broke group calls it was very easy to convince my family to switch to signal.