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Sunshine (she/her) to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com • 2 months ago

Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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Signal – an ethical replacement for WhatsApp

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Sunshine (she/her) to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com • 2 months ago
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Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is an important action, right now. WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has been involved in several cases of election interference: America in 2016, Trinidad and Tobago …
  • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    -30•2 months ago

    I don’t see the point in using it. It’ll eventually become just like every other app like it.

    • @the_q@lemmy.zip
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      14•2 months ago

      That’s tech. Use what’s best for the user until the company inevitably chases dollar signs then jump ship to the next thing.

    • @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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      10•2 months ago

      Both a lack of even basic imagination and deep cynicism.

      • @TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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        -2•2 months ago

        Why would i use an app for something my phone already does in a smaller easier way?

        • @lemming@sh.itjust.works
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          3•2 months ago

          You realize you are in a privacy comunity, right?

    • @IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world
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      2•2 months ago

      Might as well trash your computer then.

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