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Re:Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight by rvz on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @11:41PM (#31176048)
No. The momentum fizzled out. [0]

> The most common apps chosen as alternatives were Telegram and Signal, mostly because of their privacy and security features. However, almost a third of the participants that tried to switch chose to move to either Facebook Messenger or Instagram.

> 25.97% of participants wanted to switch to other apps but only 0.5% uninstalled WhatsApp ... If we translated this result to the entire population of WhatsApp users (approx. 2 billion), we’d be talking about 500 million users trying to flee from WhatsApp, and only 10k uninstalling it.

In this researcher's own words: "It looks like WhatsApp is the place to chat with anybody, making it particularly hard to leave."

[0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...

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Re:Twitter buyout puts Mastodon into spotlight by diffeomorphism on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @01:44AM (#31176738)
That seems like entirely separate questions?

For instance I switched to signal and use it regularly, but keep whatsapp on my phone for a few contacts I might need a few times per year. Whether it is uninstalled seems like the wrong metric and does not say anything about signal usage.

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