For me it’s Whatsapp. Like 99% of people i know use it so yeh… i still need it. I am considering moving the Whatsapp Gdrive backup to a local backup btw.

Google photos is also a major problem for us. We have a lot of stuff that want to migrate to different service (or store locally).

  • RecursiveParadox@piefed.socialEnglish
    41·
    6 days ago

    I am also interested in this topic, but one specific thing gets me and I have some observations about it.

    What’sApp. I’m in Europe and actually signed up before Meta took it over. It’s predominate in my industry (it was first yahoo chat then skype and now WhatsApp).

    A large reason I am valuable to my company and keep getting paid is my network. Here is the observation: I have gotten a lot of people to switch to Signal, but they are all except one Gen X like me. Millennials and Zoomers simply cannot imagine that using WhatsApp for often highly, highly sensitive conversations is a problem. Like, a potentially big legal problem.

    Not dunking on “the kids these days” because they are far more evolved than other gens about so many things. But they just seem incurious about what underlies the tech they use. I suppose?

    • Oak_Kitten@slrpnk.net
      8·
      6 days ago

      We are moving in different circles then, because my Millenials and Zoomers are very much on Signal, or even more nieche stuff. Meanwhile anyone over 45 seems to be glued to all the Google, Meta and Microsoft products.

    • ikt@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 days ago

      im fortunate here in australia my friends and family use telegram with me, i use signal but it’s so utterly basic no one else liked it, also there was a bug where the desktop app would spam people you’re talking to a million times a second causing your friends phone to damn near explode, that was embarrassing :/

      there are some it guys who do use signal but we’re a tiny minority but as telegram is my main messenger i don’t use meta at all

      google on the other hand, there is no alternative to google maps (reviews and easily findable opening hours) or youtube

      i currently have an iphone xs but my next phone will be https://murena.com/

      so that’ll remove apple

      then that’s about it, until a european CPU and GPU that isn’t amd/intel/nvidia comes along or until dailymotion suddenly leaps forwards in video content or ecosia creates their own maps ive gone as far as i can