You can change your number

Re:You can change your number by TacticalCoder on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:19PM (#30252162)

> Next time when Facebook pulls something user-hostile ...

In my opinion with or without FB putting anything more hostile people are moving, in drones, to Telegram. I see regular people (non-tecchies at all) in my friends' circle joining Telegram regularly.

I'm not saying TG is better than Signal but I think TG's userbase is many orders of magnitude bigger than Signal's.

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Re:You can change your number by panopticon on Monday February 07, 2022 @05:55PM (#30252612)

> people are moving, in drones, to Telegram

As an aside, the idiom is "in droves".

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Re:You can change your number by tgsovlerkhgsel on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @02:08AM (#30269825)

These trends tend to be "local" to some extent. Sometimes country based, but I've heard of cities where different schools had different messengers (back in the ICQ/MSN etc. days). In the end, people use what their circle of friends uses.

In Switzerland for example Threema is popular. In many countries you still can't really exist without Whatsapp. In China, Wechat. In Taiwan I believe you use Line if you want to have any friends (or reach businesses). In the US, iMessage with a fallback to SMS is popular, while it's rare in Europe because the SMS fallback would bankrupt you due to per-SMS charges.

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Re:You can change your number by takeda on Monday February 07, 2022 @11:30PM (#30254912)

That's because that's where many of the disinformation facebook groups went to, which is not surprising as Telegram is Russia owned.

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