[HN Gopher] WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends ...
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WhatsApp Status to convince your family and friends to switch to
Signal
Author : karlzt
Score : 43 points
Date : 2021-01-15 21:10 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| suyash wrote:
| My status say "Rarely here, find me on Signal"
| lefty2 wrote:
| So once everyone switches to Signal, Facebook just gets out the
| checkbook and buys Signal... rinse and repeat
| jacques-a wrote:
| Signal also released profile pictures for whatsapp. Let's others
| know you've made the switch.
|
| https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1349236175773462532?s=2...
| meibo wrote:
| Probably a bad time to get people started on Signal right now, as
| it's been down for a few hours. Had to migrate back to Telegram
| temporarily!
| 458aperta wrote:
| I love this collective blitzkrieg against Whatsapp & Facebook.
|
| 90s called and we want our internet back. Now I hope that we will
| see a revival of the simplicity of the 90s, where the power is
| handed back to the people, where you could write desktop apps
| using Visual Basic and write a webpage in HTML with frames.
| Engineering-MD wrote:
| I had my whats app status set to encourage people to contact me
| on signal and no one swapped over 2 years. I don't think it was
| at all effective. Having said that, now there is a wave of
| migration so it may be enough to tip someone over the edge
| (although I expect a short a sweet bit of text is what would
| win).
| munk-a wrote:
| A bit of an aside but I had no idea you could set your status to
| a series of twenty images in whatsapp and I have no idea why this
| feature exists - granted I don't tend to non-professionally use
| messengers for communication so I'm a bit out of the loop.
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