It was not easy for me either, and in recent year thanks to last year's scandal with politicians I get weird looks now if I say why I use signal, and well, I have to explain and show things like videos from Louis and other advocates. they usually understand but not necessairly willing to make contact on signal. but once or twice a year, I find new (or old) acquaintance and some people do have signal, in which case we just exchange the contact. and that is more getting common too.
I guess signal is getting popular enough to the point where some people do actually use it, and I'm happy whenever I see people who use them! but yea, process of getting people to install (while letting them keep the other contact as well) is not exactly easy, but hey, at least family and close frined communication is now on Signal for me, so I guess that is a small victory.
I think you can make it with family or close friends, they can make that extra effort for you. But when you have everyday contacts/sms with clients or colegues, it is really hard.
Don't think so, I have my work phone, work email, work teams profile. some colleagues actually use signal and we take personal contact through them, but anyting work related, I do it over work phone.
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u/iguannaweb 1d ago
I tried this, but it's complicated.