So here’s the thing, every time I try to move away from Facebook messenger I run into the same problem, nobody else in my friends or family actually want to use a secure, private messenger app like signal or telegram, my wife, my parents, my in-laws, my friends they’re ALL on Facebook and they will never take signal seriously enough to actually use it, it really bums me out that there are these far superior options but without anyone else using them they’re pointless…
Anyway what apps do you use to stay in touch with people?
The trick is to not concentrate on why you want to switch but instead find things that would make them want to switch.
I ultimately settled on Telegram (Signal at the time was too niche), so I targeted different people with different features. Stickers for some, bots for others, my wife appreciates not having to devote masses of space to WhatsApp photos, and everyone likes the ease of multi device access with no backups needed.
The main contenders largely share the same feature sets these days but there’s still likely to be things that’ll convince people to move elsewhere…