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"many of them use Signal" - where is this conclusion come from? They have WeChat. I've never seen any of my Chinese friends using Signal.
by tracyhenry 6y ago
"many of them use Signal" - where is this conclusion come from? They have WeChat. I've never seen any of my Chinese friends using Signal.
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoThat's kinda irrelevant to whether Signal should try to help Chinese users?
- tracyhenry 6y agoIdk. I commented because the title is wrong and misleading.
- rejschaap 6y agoTotally irrelevant, but it's there, in the headline and it's not true. They probably tried to say that most of signal users use third party keyboards.
- Aperocky 6y agoThis. Absolutely none of my family and friends in China use Signal. There are a few that uses slack though.
- jackjeff 6y agoWhen Donald Trump threatened to block WeChat in the US expats and Chinese people alike started to download Signal. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-bans-wechat-some-china-turn-encrypted-messaging-app-signal-n1236184 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/trump-bans-wechat-some...
- tracyhenry 6y agoThat's about Chinese people in the US. The headline explicitly says "people in China". Note that even for Chinese people in the US (myself included), Signal was in my experience a pretty minor choice when Trump was trying to ban WeChat. Whatsapp, Line, etc were among the favorite alternatives.