@danie10 I asked a friend in California to install Signal today and he said he has other priorities now. Me too, so after I delete WhatsApp he can only contact me through phone calls and text messages. Interesting fact is the EU countries are not affected by this new change in the terms of service.
@flav yes EU has privacy laws in place to protect their citizens. I have wo or three people that I also will be only using text and e-mail for as they are not going to hold me back. It's time we had more diversity in messaging and I wish there were universal protocols like XMPP or ActivityPub and others that should be adopted by all messaging companies.
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I've never tried XMPP and Matrix but I'll have to check that out. Another friend complained that Signal doesn't show him when someone is online. I told him his problem is he's a normie and he wants everything to be like what he's already used to lol. What a boring life would be to not try new things.
@flav yes Signal users can disable presence indicator - it's for privacy. I'm going to do a video in the next day or two around XMPP and Movim.
@flav not that I can recall and these are the available options at https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/. #Manyverse is quite widely used and popular.