I have a handful of friends and family that did actually switch, but I still have a few stubborn friends on Discord that do t see the point. Just waiting for Discord to fuck up badly enough...
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I have 1 friend who I talk to exclusively over discord DMs.
The server went down for about 6 hours when we were chatting and he made a signal account.
Then he deleted it after the outage π
Discord not even letting me to creare an account. The OTP never get generated. And i believe that's for good.
Many open-source developers also effectively using discord as a communication medium.
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Why do people use signal? It has one centralized server and phone number registration. There are many better alternatives.
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I saw my mom's Signal today.. Only me π
My mother in law actually surprised me by asking if the family group chat could switch to signal. I wasnt going to bother her about it because i assumed shed hate it since shes bad with technology. It was a pleasant surprise.
I have friends who refuse to install Signal despite having 10+ friends who I know use it. Big ups to ur mom
I'm actually surprised by how easily I was able to get my whole family and several friends on there, it's my main messaging platform now. The only others are sms and steam chat.
Same here, it turned out family and friends wanted to stay in touch! Not a real surprise, but for some reason I kept overthinking and delaying the process.. Once I just asked, all was done within like 20 mins. People made their accounts, I made the groups.
I love Session messenger as a decentralised solution, but man it sucks how little people want to change their habits
Only reason I managed to get everyone on Signal was because... uhh... Skype shut down. Yes, we used it to the end.
It's great for talking to my friends out of country instead of stupid WhatsApp, but I got some weird messages on there.
All the more motivation to encourage your friends to get on signal. I've had a discussion this week with someone, on fedi, who just can't conceive of getting off Meta products, like WhatSapp, because it has so much usage in Europe. Our work isn't done; not yet.
That person doesn't need to leave WhatsApp completely right away. They can just talk to some people on Signal and others on WhatsApp.
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I (maybe a bit forcibly) got all my bands and family to switch to signal. It's not easy but it's possible.
I have a Matrix server hosted with tons of cool plugins, bots, and settings to get it as close to Discord as possible. Canβt get anyone to use it lol. Donβt care. Iβll continue to pay for it for when we truly need it.
What I want out of a Discord-a-like:
- Screen sharing / game sharing
- Voice chat
- Text chat
- Video chat (voice + camera)
Do your bots and plugins make that possible?
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There's a CLI which is nice. I use it to communicate with my self-hosted personal assistant, while I'm on the go.
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