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Are people are using WhatsApp, Discord and Instagram because it's left or right, and not because that's what they see everyone else is doing?
I use discord because that's what social circle use to communicate. No one is going to follow me if I switch apps or care about my suggestions.
Why do they use it, if you follow the chain of people using it for other people back to the start?
Because that's what the core of the group that are generally making all the plans want to use. Some of us were trying to get everyone to use signal instead a while back but it never went anywhere. At this point I'm just grateful they aren't using facebook to coordinate everything. Or at least enough of them aren't that I can still find out whats going on via discord.
I suspect many people here are not the core of their social circles and that's why they never make any progress. We should tell them to fix that first more.
Not everyone has a personality suited to that. I certainly don't and most people just aren't that concerned with privacy. Just finding people that didn't rely on Facebook was difficult for me. I don't really have the time or energy to dedicate to convincing them to go further.
So we focus on targeting those already suitable.