• sculptor0725@sh.itjust.works
    35·
    17 days ago

    Maybe all your contacts also value their privacy and therefore have not set signal to allow them to be discovered by their phone number

    • tumbling4986@lemmy.caOP
      14·
      16 days ago

      If that’s the case, then i would be more happier to get their usernames atleast. But the situation is way worse than that. They are deeply into whatsapp.

      • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        16 days ago

        Do they have a need to communicate with you?

        If so, you can just not install WhatsApp. Smartphones allow them to install multiple communicating apps, so your friends could remember to use signal when talking to you.

        • tumbling4986@lemmy.caOP
          2·
          16 days ago

          Actually, deletion of whatsapp and instagram drastically decreased my friend circle. Now i have more time for myself. I don’t think they have a reason to communicate with me. Anyway, am not installing whatsapp anymore.

  • superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    17 days ago

    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…

    • TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      13·
      17 days ago

      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 😭

    • tumbling4986@lemmy.caOP
      7·
      16 days ago

      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.

  • Rose@slrpnk.net
    9·
    16 days ago

    I literally got Signal because my sister told me to get on it. That’s the only contact I have on Signal.

    When the Recent Fascist Takeover happened, an American friend asked me for app opinions - I told him Signal was great, aside of the fact that the desktop app keeps getting updated every femtosecond. …we’re still talking over Discord, sad to say.

    Signal keeps suggesting I add a contact for my old boss. (Who was a cool guy, but not cool enough to keep in contact with years afterwards.) Actually, when I had an internship a few years afterwards, the new boss’s preferred app was Telegram, so, uh, a red flag? …Yeah, didn’t get that job.

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
    8·
    15 days ago

    When I switched to Signal I enforced it hard. Refused to talk to anyone on another platform. If they texted me, I’d responed, but always add “I’d prefer if we discussed this over Signal.”

    I had more success than I’d anticipated. About 90% of my family and 80% of my friends moved over.

    My best piece of advice for this is to start new group chats - people want to be in the group chats, and if they believe Signal is where it’s all happening, they’ll join.

    • Dejected Warp Core@lemmy.world
      3·
      16 days ago

      I’m on the receiving end of this from a friend and I didn’t even think twice about it. I think we’re all in a place now where being asked to install yet another app is pretty commonplace. Plus phone app stores make it relatively painless to do.

  • Stolas@lemmy.ca
    6·
    15 days ago

    I made a stoat account to escape discord with a few friends and this image is exactly what happened. Majority of people we know aren’t inconvenienced enough to move on.

  • Godric@lemmy.world
    5·
    16 days ago

    For a while, it was just my one buddy I convinced to use it and I, but then I got hired at a new company and hit it off with the resident cybersec OG! Having Signal ready to rock gave a great first impression :)

  • Banana@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    15 days ago

    I actually have my main groupchat on signal, but I think that has more to do with having friends that do drugs than anything else.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.ml
    5·
    16 days ago

    Typical security advice is to turn off “find me by my number” in the Signal security settings. You may well have friends who use Signal, but have turned that setting off. You may consider turning it off yourself. Also, you should turn off “see my number” on the same settings screen.