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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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how do you guys use privacy focused messaging alternatives like Signal or Matrix? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 weeks ago by bpt11@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I can’t use them because I can’t convince anybody to switch with me. I talk to most people on discord and I’d rather move to using Matrix, but I can’t convince any of my friends or family or anyone I know to use anything else.

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[–] caesaravgvstvs 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I mean, you can make an ersatz poll by using emoji reactions

[–] maxprime@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah that’s what we do but it pales in comparison to FB Messenger’s polling system, apparently.