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Definitely the latter

• frosted-flakes 4y ago
  It's definitely happening in some circles. I was quite surprised to hear that my dad's reasonably active sibling chat group uses Signal, and we're talking about a dozen+ mostly technologically-inept people aged 40-70. To give an example of how inept, my dad recently discovered that iOS Safari has tabs, and he's had a smartphone for close to a decade and uses Safari heavily. I have no idea what prompted them to switch away from WhatsApp, and before that, GroupMe (which they used for a while because it worked through SMS), but they did.
  • oarabbus_ 4y ago
    I keep hearing this - and I recall a slate of articles claiming "WhatsApp is dead, users are flocking to Signal/Telegram" so I looked up the numbers. Signal has around 50M MAU. Telegram has 500M MAU. Messenger has 1B MAU. WeChat has 1.2B MAU. Whataspp has >2B MAU.
    • spicybright 4y ago
      That tells you nothing about a trend though, right? We'd have to look at this over time to see if people are actually moving to/starting to use signal.
      • oarabbus_ 4y ago
        If you look at the data over time, you'll find that both Messenger and WhatsApp have grown MAUs every quarter since their existence. You're free to draw your own conclusion to the question.
    • frosted-flakes 4y ago
      Oh, I'm not claiming that Signal is taking over everywhere, just that in some groups of people it's becoming quite common.