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This morning, my entire family either switched or said they already had a Signal account. Now we have a family Signal chat.

I expected resistance, not compliance! I'm very happy.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I cannot find anything lacking in the app that exists in the default texting app. If you would like to provide specific examples, I can possibly give a better answer.

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

All the stickers you have in WhatsApp. For almost all my friends it’s one of the main thing that keeps them from switching. I also just noticed it doesn’t have live location.

[–] Liketearsinrain@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I used a bot to transfer some in the past, it wasn't the simplest solution but it exists. I don't remember what it was called anymore unfortunately

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago

Everywhere I’ve searched the solution is to transfer only one at a time.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I've never once used WhatsApp and ... Honestly don't really know what stickers are in this context.

For location, I wrote a whole paragraph that I then realized came from a place of privilege. I will acknowledge that that's on me.

But what are stickers?

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Stickers are quite big in some countries. They are slightly bigger emojis that use gifs or pics that people themselves can make. Some of my group chats are filled with memes with my friends faces on them. We communicate a lot through these. Make up our own moods and ways to express ourselves. When a new sticker is used in another group chat we sometimes find it so hilarious that we share it in another. WhatsApp makes it very difficult to transfer stickers away. You have to do it one by one.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

~~Reddit, I know, but here~~ Archives link as an easy way to transfer your stickers from Whatsapp to Signal en masse.

Edit. Changed reddit link to archived link.

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

About your comment: thank you for teaching me.

About what it says: I don't know how best to express my frustration, so I'm just going to say ... Actually I can't even think of a positive way to share my thoughts.

It's cool that you're able to put yourself out there that way. It's very upsetting that Meta gets to decide whether or how you do so.

[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 2 points 20 hours ago

I share your frustration, it’s yet another trick such that WhatsApp doesn’t have to compete.