They didn't kick out that minority who ran racist businesses, they kicked out all the 288k people who reneged on their "duty" to go kill ukrainians and die for putin's aspirations.

Don't misinterpret this as a slight to the main topic, but I am unable to imagine 110 people living together in one house.

I wonder how many of them (for both sides) were involuntarily recruited.

Yep, I guess the covid made it a visceral, identitarian issue. They're not good allies, but hey, if they have to be alienated, it's a reassurance that they're on the right side.

If you manage to argue long and hard with those crazy extremists (not with the ignorant ones) and not lose your temper, you should be sanctified 😅

If the user base is signal's big draw, I'm afraid we're screwed with such a tiny one against those titans.

Signal users are far more likely to need to use whatsapp than the other way around, and migrating to signal is a huge loss with not very popular gains. I don't see how it could compete on a level playing field, but that's where the opportunity to eliminate signal's huge disadvantage comes in.

You could go on without doing it. I would like to use signal to signal, but there are literally zero people interested in my environment :-(
Using signal just me would be much better than using whatsapp directly, and would reduce the data collected.

If signal suddenly stopped being mostly a geek desert and people could still talk to all their contacts, don't you think they would be much more willing to move? The more people, the more people interested in migrating, and the less data for meta.

This is what I hate most about the privacy community, too fanatical and purist to allow extremely useful optional features that would allow them to reach more people.

Where did you see that? Are you sure you are not confusing it with fedora gnome?

If they were to recommend it, I'm sure there would be people who would end up breading it with salt.

Your attitude and constant insults are much worse.