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American here, I've been insisting on signal for years and it's going fine. If you're cool enough people will follow your lead eventually, it's a better experience and everyone else waiting to switch is being held back by the same excuse. Take your good posts and go home (to open platforms)
I am not nearly cool enough
Lmao, but I've found it's less about being cool and more about being firm. I've got three friends that I told very plainly "I will no longer be reachable via SMS, please use Signal". Bear in mind that 1) these are people who love me a lot, more like family than friends, and 2) I didn't try to shame them or demand they stop using SMS entirely. I just said "this is how you reach me now". All three installed Signal, and one of them now uses it as their primary method of text communication like I do.
Not saying it's easy necessarily, and I doubt this method would work for acquaintances rather than family or close friends. But every little helps, and it's a place to start.
Can confirm that this works - even better if they said no and then later ask you to send something "hey can you send so and so's contact card" or. "Photos form the event"
And then you say "Yes, on Signal"
They will download right there