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Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
by jhasse 9y ago
Try Telegram instead of WhatsApp. It's a good drop-in replacement.
- heinrich5991 9y agoIt doesn't encrypt end-to-end by default though.
- jhasse 9y agoFOSS client is more important IMHO.
- mxschumacher 9y agothe trouble is to get your friends to use it. A vast portion of my daily communication runs over Whatsapp. A realistic migration would entail convincing 25+ people to switch apps. Network effects are powerful.
- jhasse 9y agoLet them try Telegram's awesome desktop clients. It's quite a good argument for many as I hear lots of people complaining about WhatsApp's.
- mxschumacher 9y agoI've been using the Whatsapp Web version since it was released and it has worked flawlessly
- jhasse 8y agoTelegram Desktop works without your phone and also is a much leaner native desktop app (written in C++ with Qt).
- Rotareti 9y agoI use a profile pic on WhatsApp that says "Please write me on Signal". This works very nicely in my circle, I get a lot of messages on Signal and it's getting better year after year. I think I'll add "Telegram" to the profile pic as well.
- unicornwizard 9y agoEven better, Signal.
- jhasse 9y agoBuggier, less features, and even less people using it. Also not available on F-Droid IIRC. Has this changed?
- Rotareti 9y ago> and even less people using it. Are you sure about this? In my circle most people seem to know/use WhatsApp and Signal.
- jhasse 9y agoAccording to https://www.androidrank.org/listcategory?category=COMMUNICATION&hl=en https://www.androidrank.org/listcategory?category=COMMUNICAT... Telegram has ~100 million installs and Signal ~5 million.