>Someone who won’t install a trivial and safe free app to maintain connection with you is perhaps not as valuable a connection as one might think.

That's a pretty radical stance and I respect it.

However, I consider that keeping in touch with people that don't get why they shouldn't use Meta or Google is actually more productive than bubbling myself in a hacktivist bubble. I actually have more chance to get them interested in mass surveillance concerns by keeping in touch than by ghosting them.