Threema – Secure and Private Messenger

Re:Threema – Secure and Private Messenger by fileeditview on Thursday January 21, 2021 @10:59AM (#25860223)

Didn't WhatsApp do it similar in the beginning? AFAIR they offered the app for free and said after one year you have to pay 1€/$. I paid this once or twice and then it was free again (probably because of FB).

However it was very clever to give a whole year for free, lock everyone in and then start taking a small fee. I like that strategy. Now with FB it's just a plain data grab.

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Re:Threema – Secure and Private Messenger by oarsinsync on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:12AM (#25860414)

Correct. And despite this, many of my friends refused to pay the $1/£1/1€ on the basis that facebook messenger was free, as was SMS in their cell plans.

So I paid for them. Despite them all earning real money in real jobs.

Then Facebook bought WhatsApp, and now none of them are willing to move to Signal, because they like WhatsApp.

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Re:Threema – Secure and Private Messenger by petre on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:34AM (#25860713)

I did something else: I don't have WA or messenger. If anyone wants to text me they should use Signal or SMS or e-mail.

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