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0 pointsthe_af26d ago0 comments

> Just stop using Meta products. It's really not as hard as it seems. Nobody needs FB to communicate with friends and family. Send texts or emails or use your phone.

I'm in WhatsApp groups with friends who live abroad, SMS is not an option. We could use another chat app, but then I'd have to convince every friend from every group to use something else. WhatsApp is what every friend I have agrees on.

I belong to several hobby groups that exist only on Facebook or Reddit (or Discord, but I dislike it for several reasons). I'd like to ditch both Facebook and Reddit, but that would mean leaving those hobby groups, and given the joy they bring me, I'm not willing to pull the plug yet.

So you see, it's really not that easy.

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pmontra26d ago· 3 in thread

All it would take is WhatsApp going paid plans only. All of Europe will switch to Telegram as primary messaging platform in a couple of days. Hence a paid only WhatsApp will never happen until every plausible alternative will be made impossible either by acquisition or by law.

TFNA26d ago

> All of Europe will switch to Telegram as primary messaging platform in a couple of days.

I don't think you realize how much Telegram is associated with hated Russia and the local far-right in several European countries.

pmontra26d ago

Whatever it is, it's the most known WhatsApp alternative in this part of the world and if WhatsApp will start asking again only 1 Euro (about 15 years ago) and enforce it this time, my bet is that people will switch to Telegram en masse.

okanat26d ago

Whatsapp became successful by being cheaper than SMSes in Europe. But yeah people probably switch to the next convenient app.

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