I can’t use them because I can’t convince anybody to switch with me. I talk to most people on discord and I’d rather move to using Matrix, but I can’t convince any of my friends or family or anyone I know to use anything else.

  • akilou@sh.itjust.works
    123·
    21 hours ago

    I just told everybody that I only reply on Threema

    if they can’t be arsed to use another app (which is an extremely effortless task to do) then they are probably not worth staying in contact with

    So if someone said you have to use their messagee of choice - Signal, Whatsapp, Matrix, FB Messager, Discord - you’d have no problem meeting them there because it’s effortless, yeah?

    • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
      21·
      16 hours ago

      You left out two important real world aspects from your thought experiment.

      1. one person cares about a specific aspect of the messenger - privacy - and the other doesn’t care, they are just on whatever their peers told them to be on. So if their messenger happens to have the aspect I care about I’ll do it. Since they don’t have any such criteria I expect them to do it as well.

      2. If that person is important enough for me and doesn’t budge I’ll call or E-Mail them. Which is less private than an e2ee messenger, but more private than data harvesting companies.

      • yonder@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        10 hours ago

        Exactly this. I use Signal for people close to me and SMS or Email for those who don’t use signal, who I don’t have coversations with often anyways. Dispite it’s many, many flaws, I will use SMS before I use a Meta messenger.