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How do you deal with WhatsApp monopoly? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by justanotheruser4@lemmy.world to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml

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Email, docs, music, maps etc have reasonable alternatives and you don't depend on others to switch (a gmail user will receive my email from tuta). But with WhatsApp either you conceal and use it or you just don't talk to people (tried convincing them to switch to signal and it simply doesn't happen)

How do you deal with it?

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I just don't talk to people.

I mean, I didn't watch Game of Thrones, so I'll never be a citizen of humanity. Seems like a decade and a half went by of conversations that went "So did you see Game of Thrones last night?" "No, I don't watch that show." "Oh. Bye." The sooner you realize everyone is an empty headed content consumer and there has never been anything worth saying to or hearing from any of them, the sooner you'll wonder why you even own a phone.