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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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[–] xela@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I use it via Beeper On-Device

https://blog.beeper.com/2025/07/16/the-new-beeper/?ref=beeper-faq

[–] Toryu122@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Thats the neat part, you dont

Unlike all the apps you named it, "users" is what make it still alive to this day

You gonna have to use it with Signal if you want to use Signal that much, or just dont

[–] justanotheruser4@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

Thank you, that's a great take

[–] Mucki@feddit.org -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Either enjoy the advantages of WhatsApp and be happy with the way it is. Or just don't use it.

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