I used to have the same thinking, lurked on Signal for a while, then suddenly all my contacts started to show up.
Even my 14 year old got all her friends on Signal (without my direct influence) because they are very aware of instagram/FB addiction and want to stay away from it.
Impressive. I have a lot more on telegram but have yet to have a group chat on either platform.
Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
by texasbigdata on Thursday January 07, 2021 @07:34PM
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Same.
Signal now supports group chats as well, thought it looks like all participants have to be using Signal otherwise it uses regular MMS and the "group" dynamic breaks down.
I know that it supports group chats, but the whole group would have to switch to it. That might happen with one such group in the next few days as we've had a long discussion. 1 member of the 15 in the group has now installed signal. 2 of us were already on signal.
That still leaves 12 more to switch but it could happen.
People can contact me on signal but I mostly use WhatsApp for group chats and I'm not so important that everyone will install a newaapp just to include me in a group chat.