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karhuton ◴[] No.43689325[source]
As someone who’s stuck with Whatsapp and no way out (friends and family won’t switch), I dearly hope for a split.

I do struggle to understand how we here casually lump tohether totally different platforms as comptetitors.

It’s not like I can use Youtube or Tiktok instead of Whatsapp with my family for direct and group discussion. Even X and Instagram would be a stretch, as their raison d’être is public social media and not instant messaging.

Sure the platforms have overlapping features, but you ain’t gonna use a knife insted of a spoon.

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fransje26 ◴[] No.43690591[source]
> It’s not like I can use Youtube or Tiktok instead of Whatsapp with my family for direct and group discussion.

What's wrong with Signal? Or, worst-case scenario, Telegram?

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1. Gasp0de ◴[] No.43692190[source]
What's the use case for using Telegram over Whatsapp? At least the latter has proper end-to-end encryption of content?
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2. fsflover ◴[] No.43695046[source]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563574

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562320

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32950204