This is true in Portugal. Which is a headache for me since I deleted it in 2018, though it also gets me out of a lot of bullshit.
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deleted all my "social", including whatsapp... And, in the end, whatsapp is the only cage-app I needed to rejoin in. So much nested in the social life of people, across all ages, even here in Italy.
yeah, whatsapp is the universal messaging alternative from the days of expensive mobile messaging fees
and the worst thing is that it is "good enough" to keep all people in and (mostly) happy...
network effect is a thing
I frankly was a lot in trouble trying migrate people elsewhere. Most of them use telegram that is worse for some aspect, only some of them would install signal (that is still a shitcoiner centralized platform, maybe the best out there, but still...). So in the end, instead of "replace" whatsapp, I ended collecting more and more incompatible crappy platforms.
We need a protocol that leverage the best that nostr has done and create finally a "better alternative to centralized messaging platform"...
And then we will finally stay offline talking each others about how we saved the internet
