Hello,

It’s been a while since I started finding Whatsapp alternative, I found IRC, XMPP, Signal etc, however the thing is that I can’t convince other people to use Whatsapp, I can’t say that “ohh it’s bad for privacy” otherwise they will say “you are not a president, nobody cares about your messages”. also I don’t live in western country so I can’t just say “I don’t want to use Whatsapp” otherwise people will get mad saying “you are not a VIP, everyone uses whatsapp and you are not special”.

however I found a way so that people won’t blame me for not using Whatsapp, I have to somehow get banned from Whatsapp and then when people ask “why don’t you use whatsapp” then I can say “ohh umm I don’t know it stopped working, you can find me on Signal”. that way people will be ready to install Signal to talk to me.

what are your thoughts? is it even possible to get perma banned from Whatsapp?

  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    “No problem, you can have my old phone for free.WhatsApp still works on that. It’s not getting any security updates anymore, but who cares.”