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This comment makes no sense since you are a part of the "people" group you just described.

It's entirely possible to sway your group of friends from Whatsapp to Signal. I've done it myself. I'm not saying you should. I'm just saying your comment is logically self refuting.

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„It‘s entirely possible to sway your group of friends from WhatsApp to Signal“ is an assumption, I don‘t think is universally true. Especially since you base it on your own experience. I just recently made the switch but for me it meant cutting some contacts for now. Especially non-tech people put you in a tinfoil-hat category pretty fast so its not an easy problem if you can‘t communicate well enough.

This assumes you have one isolated group of friends who communicate mostly with each other and not as much to people outside this group. You would need to convince your friends+family to switch, then they in turn need to convince their other friends+family to switch, and so on. What your friends did is install Signal to communicate with you.

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