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Rats.

If only we had figured out how to get them to switch from TikTok and WhatsApp to Signal I'm sure we'd be Gucci.

/s

Almost no one uses Signal outside of your social bubble.



Totally correct. The problem on this comments here is that many of them insert their own anecdotes as evidence. It isn't evidence.

> Almost no one uses Signal outside of your social bubble.

There is evidence support that claim. From [0]:

"25.97% of participants wanted to switch to other apps (at least partially) due to the update, but only a quarter of those succeeded."

"Only 0.5% of participants uninstalled WhatsApp. The data shows how installing a new app is easy, but leaving an app is not, mainly due to strong network effects, differences in functionality of different apps, and feeling a loss of control over the distribution of contacts across apps."

So that wasn't the so called 'mass migration' that was religiously believed by the Signal fans here. In fact, they are still using WhatsApp or Telegram.

[0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...


What is your vendetta here?




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