The exodus was so large that WhatsApp has been forced to delay the implementation of the new terms, which had been slated for 8 February (now moved to 15th May) , and run a damage limitation campaign to explain to users the changes they were making.
Over the first three weeks of January, Signal has gained 7.5 million users globally, according to figures shared by the UK parliament’s home affairs committee, and Telegram has gained 25 million.
I can see it happening live on my phone screen. Supported by the current wave we managed to convice a group with 40+ people to move to Signal. If this continues I will soon be able to delete WhatsApp for good! No complicated Shelter-workarounds - just deleted. What a relieve it will be…
In their arrogance they failed to understand that once trust is lost, it is lost forever.
Moved some friends and family to Signal this week. The main complaints have been backup to cloud and auto download of images functionality. The latter I get due to the privacy risk.
Perhaps /e/ could provide the secure backup solution for signal users and increase uptake of /e/ cloud at the same time.
I am not sure that this would be /e/'s job, but I agree a simple and secure backup solution for Signal would be just gorgeous! Why don’t you bring up that proposal to https://community.signalusers.org/?
It’s just beautiful… and time to convert to decentralized systems like https://snikket.org/ or any other XMPP based IM.
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