Signal introduced usernames a couple of days ago though. curious to try Meet though, sounds amazing.
my issue always is, that everyone in my family and friends back home in Colombia use whatsapp, it's really hard to move contacts over. any ideas?
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Yeah unfortunately migrating or using existing contacts is not gonna work in Keet (certainly at this stage).
I would say start using Keet for any specific project or group that you can find, maybe a bitcoiner friend, sharing files with someone, and just start getting up there a lot. Then use Keet for it's strengths with your other family. For instance, moving a 1GB file in Whatsapp I imagine is a nightmare. But if you have a desktop that stays on and want to share a 1GB file with someone, the install -> get link -> share link -> download process is actually super quick and easy. My sister-in-law got on it in now time and she isn't a very technically inclined user.
There are some additional features coming soon that will make it far more readily useful for these cases as well. And I'm working on a project that should scale that up to a much more organized setup for file sharing.
If you can pull people in for one use case, it ends up a lot easier to get them to use it for other things as well. You just need to start building a network. The only reason I have the whole list as I do above is because I've been working toward it for almost a year now. Takes time, but all good things do 😄 🫡