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Yup. These apps are not used in isolation and I find it funny that the tech people argue which is better and why.

The one everyone uses is better.

If you dont have a way to move masses, it does not matter.



> If you dont have a way to move masses

Or the guts to say "I'm going this way, I'll be happy if you join me" and follow through


I’m in Turkey no UK or US so I can only speak for here. It’d be like denouncing electricity and saying join me. Good luck with that.

Its not friends and family. Our office administration basically runs on a WhatsApp group. I just sent a location to a plumber using WhatsApp. They dont know / use / want anything else.

At best, you might get some close people to use Signal or whatever but you have to use whatsapp to function.

Especially American people won’t understand that because I believe iMessage and SMS is still the de facto standard. That would be WA here.


So you don't go vote in elections either? Because "if you dont have a way to move masses, it does not matter."




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