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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Can you easily communicate in your country (business/private life) without being involuntarily forced to use whatsapp? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by muaveri@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2037625

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[–] nehal3m@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

European here, I did use WA until Meta (Facebook back then) bought it. Then I typed up a copypasta that said something like:

Because Facebook is buying WhatsApp, I am leaving the platform. You can reach me on these apps: [Link to installer for Signal] [Link to installer for Telegram]

I have since set up a Matrix server that puppets for Telegram so I don't have the actual client installed anywhere.