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Which proprietary software do you prefer over their open-source alternatives, and why? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Can second this for Germany, too.

I tried to degoogle and to only use FOSS apps and services, but ditching WhatsApp would throw me in a black hole.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Half-and-half here (also Germany). Almost everyone I know uses Signal & WhatsApp both. But WA is for bad connectivity and group chats, plus a few (mostly foreigners) holdouts.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have ONE contact who uses Signal. Yes, it's a shame but at this point I think that I could convert more people to using Linux than to switching to Signal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I hear that a lot, it’s so weird, even my mum, dad and aunts (all around 70 years old) use Signal, and that was not my idea (I used to avoid all those fucking phone-number messengers for a few years until I caved in and realized Jabber is not making a return to mainstream …)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Same here. I wonder if there is an easy way to leave an old phone with whatsapp at home and forward the messages to my daily driver. Would prevent the zuck from reading out my contact list at minimum. I know he still has everybody else's but still.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Matrix bridge?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

You don't have to give contact permission to the app.