Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

There are a few that I can't recall off the top of my head

[pfr@lemmy.sdf.org]

You still pay for SMS? Wtf, what country do you live in? Most postpaid mobile plans these days only charge for data usage. In which case, your still paying to use WhatsApp.

[pfr@lemmy.sdf.org]

It has to start with someone. I made my entire family switch to signal by boycotting WhatsApp. I just said, of you want to contact me your can either SMS, email or install signal. It was surprisingly easy. For non family members, I tell people to switch all the time. Most of my contacts now use signal. It was worth the trouble.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Most of the world.

[pfr@lemmy.sdf.org]

SMS is generally free and unlimited with almost any postpaid mobile plan. If you're still paying for SMS then you should switch providers.

[daeraxa@lemmy.ml]

Yup, its just called Loops, there is a download link once you log in. (On a related note why does everything keep like this picture keep calling it "Loops.video" when it is just called "Loops"? - we don't call it "Lemmy.ml", "Mastodon.social" or "Peertube.tv")

[pfr@lemmy.sdf.org]

It will. I did the same thing a couple years ago. Make sure you share links to things like articles, videos, news, from the fediverse to your contacts. That helps them switch, when they see the platform in their mobile browser.

[pfr@lemmy.sdf.org]

Check out Circles app

[callyral@pawb.social]

Same (Brazil), Whatsapp is pretty much a requirement and I hate that I'm forced to give Meta my information by using their shitty app.

[callyral@pawb.social]

Leaks more metadata? What does that mean?

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

I did not say it was secure, I actually spend a lot of time explaining to people that it is secure and they should switch to Signal. However, I will not tell them to go back to SMS for the reason aforementioned.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Saying it’s encrypted feeds their scam. At least we don’t pay for it like SMS.

[kemsat@lemmy.world]

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

Mastodons have been extinct for millennia and don't come up in conversation often. Lemmy and Peertube aren't words at all. Loops is a pretty common word, though, so it needs something extra if you want people to know what you're talking about.

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

And yet it gets repeated (and upvoted) in every thread.

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

It is all around us. Even now, in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work; when you go to church; when you pay your taxes.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Acts like a psyop to make us do nothing, so I will call it out more and you should too.

[pfr@lemmy.sdf.org]

Exactly. No one pays for it because it's free

[whiskytangofoxtrot@lemmy.world]

That's Lemmy in a nutshell. Guillotine and Luigi memes are constantly repeated because they know that no one's actually going to act on that stuff, but any time anyone suggests a practical means to weaken the oligopoly people come out of the woodwork to shut it down.

[autonomoususer@lemmy.world]

Not outside the US.