Knowing what a privacy nightmare all meta apps are, I’m wondering if there is an alternative option which is more privacy friendly but still has some of the ease and simplicity of some features such as messenger.

I already know there will be friends I can’t convince and thats fine, I may just have to accept that. But if I could avoid using it as much, I’d really like to.

  • HiramFromTheChi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.

    You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought it sold, etc.

    Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends when they ask me about it.

    It usually answers most of their questions.