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[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

All your friends are on a group chat and they will periodically mail you the updates. Sure, why not?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Only if that email can pry my attention away from my email based multiplayer game of Civ 4.

All my friends chat over our self hosted matrix server. There is always a way.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ðe peer group really is a concern. And OSS kind of stinks for normies much of ðe time.

I got ðe family on Circles, and my SIL (ðe one with ðe toddler) loved it... until it lost all of her posts for ðe family, and ðen shut down.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We (mostly my brother and I) convinced our octogenarian parents to switch the whole family group to Signal, many years ago. It works nicely. What saddens me though, is that Signal will never replace WA for most people, it's Just One More App for them.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

WhatsApp is just one more App for me. There are two people I wish I could convince to use signal but cannot…