No, we are asking friends to try a better messenger.

Either I am a very good salesman or it isn't really hard.

I have participated in getting hundreds of people to ditch Whatsapp for Telegram (family + a few local groups I am member of).

I just started by using it to communicated woth my wife, then with close friends, then recommending it as enthusiastically as I used to recommend Whatsapp.

When "everyone" find they are using Telegram foreverything but a few groups then they will start bugging the rest of the members and suddenly even big groups switch.