About four people in their later 30s, and one person in their upper 70s.
Honestly, I thought it would be an easier sell, being in person and all, and being well-known as a tech person. I wasn't pushy at all. But it was impossible.
The first several times I focused on Matrix/Element, since that is mainly what my interest was in offering accounts-- as a comms channel other than email or text/iMessage for us, to increase our dialog.
In one conversation, I tried heavy use of analogy. Have you heard of newer A, B, C, D messengers, there's a gap for the way people used to use the old E, F, G messengers.
I described, accurately I think, my intended use case for us, for discussion of things that really do not arise to the formality of email, nor to the urgency of a notification for text/iMessage. For links we find to share, or topics to discuss, etc. To manage notifications appropriately. To only check or respond when there happens to be time or interest.
I know nothing is secure. But the idea is also somewhat, this service is at least not provided/managed by the ISP or by now pretty widely known demonstrably bad actors in tech, I won't name names.
People actually think tech co's don't spy on content. One person in gov said, that even they would need a warrant. Yeah, right. That's their understanding, though. (I mentioned targeted advertising. I did not bring up so-called AI.)
Mostly met with resistance:
- I don't message (older person); although, they check their phone regularly, and they do email
- I don't have time--pretty much everyone else
That was, yeah, sort of a wakeup call, but not really.
Regular people really have no interest in (philosophically, ideologically, or marginally) better tech, and regular people really have no time at all in general for thinking about just about anything.
Back to the battlestations for some of us. (For what, one is occasionally brought to wonder.)