OMG, one of my closest friend groups moved entirely from WhatsApp to Signal.

@bastianallgeier How many people? Can you share how the whole thing happened? What was the trigger? Any learnings from the switch? Anything that others should know before doing it?

@judeswae Only six people, but I still consider it a huge success. The trigger was basically one of us asking the rest and using the state of the US and Meta in particular as argument. 4 where on board pretty much immediately. The 5th didn't really care too much and gave Signal a try for the first time, but the 6th person took a while to convince. I don't have any real advice to be honest. I think it's very personal to each group.

@bastianallgeier Indeed, big success. I agree with you. Thanks for sharing those details.

@judeswae @bastianallgeier Getting a baby helps with the family groups. They don't get pictures of the little ones via WhatsApp

@kowantures @judeswae Hahaha, that's exactly what we did with the family group too.

@bastianallgeier @kowantures same same overhere
It's all about emotional incentives

@bastianallgeier Amazing! We need a concerted effort for sure. Tell them arandom person from Mastadon salutes them and to spread the word lol

@bastianallgeier Ossom!

@bastianallgeier i finally got my sister and another friend to move our group chat to signal from fb messenger last year, it only took a cpl months of me having deleted my acct lol

@bastianallgeier
Does signal do videos ? Have you heard of Friendica ? Wondering where and how my Facebook alumni groups could be moved ...

@bastianallgeier

Yeah, got my only WhatsApp group to move to Signal last year. Wasn't that hard because most of them don't know the difference.

So many people I use Signal now that I use it WAY more than regular messages, or the even the regular phone.