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What's a good alternative to messenger that I can plausibly convince friends to move to? (self.asklemmy)

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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.

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[–] hiramfromthechi 26 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours 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 or sold, etc.

Here's the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.

It usually answers most of their questions.