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How do you deal with WhatsApp monopoly? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by justanotheruser4@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Email, docs, music, maps etc have reasonable alternatives and you don't depend on others to switch (a gmail user will receive my email from tuta). But with WhatsApp either you conceal and use it or you just don't talk to people (tried convincing them to switch to signal and it simply doesn't happen)

How do you deal with it?

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[–] ride@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m stuck with WhatsApp because of exactly the things you listed (kids’ class groups, football groups, etc). I use Threema, iMessage or Nextcloud Chat with family and very close friends.

[–] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah for such things it’s quite difficult and I don’t want my kids to have to sacrifice anything or be the odd ones out if I don’t get informations.

If I was still with their mom, I could have left her to check the Whatsapp part and be fully done with it, but since it’s not the case, I don’t want to miss anything, especially as it’s already hard to get all the informations since schools/sports club tend to think it’s okay to only information one separated parent.

Whatsapp has almost an official role in some countries and that’s awful. Still I’m kind of seing a change in this lately..