• JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    All your friends are on a group chat and they will periodically mail you the updates. Sure, why not?

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      Ðe peer group really is a concern. And OSS kind of stinks for normies much of ðe time.

      I got ðe family on Circles, and my SIL (ðe one with ðe toddler) loved it… until it lost all of her posts for ðe family, and ðen shut down.

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        2 days ago

        We (mostly my brother and I) convinced our octogenarian parents to switch the whole family group to Signal, many years ago. It works nicely. What saddens me though, is that Signal will never replace WA for most people, it’s Just One More App for them.

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          15 hours ago

          WhatsApp is just one more App for me. There are two people I wish I could convince to use signal but cannot…