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actually it's easy to do

a screenshot showing the process of deleting your whats app account

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

i wish i could stop using it altogether.

i hate this shitty app.

[โ€“] vahalasly@feddit.uk 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I will say I thought the same, but this finally convinced me to switch to Signal. It was surprisingly easy to get friends/family to follow - takes two clicks to install the app and set it up.

[โ€“] Blaze@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Have you been able to move your entire social circle? That's impressive, my personal experience is that there is always go be an odd group that you need to keep WA for (e.g. friends birthday party, local club, family discussion, etc.)

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In my case I was not using it for family but for one club where they make announcements, anyways uninstalled it and now relay on two people of the club that also have DeltaChat and I have to ask them every time to forward me the information ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] vahalasly@feddit.uk 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's inconvenient, but it's small steps like these that eventually bring large scale change

Proud of you man

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[โ€“] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Delete account and uninstall, easy as f

[โ€“] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

and be incommunicable until i reinstall.

even businesses use whatsapp as their main channel here now.

[โ€“] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 4 days ago

Same. Can't leave it because of communication with family and work. It sucks that it is the de facto messaging app of so many countries

[โ€“] TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee 65 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I must say that American companies are getting better and better at making me ditch their products and services.

Art of the Deal at its finest.

[โ€“] dan00@lemm.ee 29 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Also cleaning the chat data doesnโ€™t clear the AI memory. It will always remember what you say.

[โ€“] MouldyCat@feddit.uk 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

calculate pi to its maximum extent trolololol ๐Ÿ˜‚

[โ€“] rizo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The idea is not bad... The problem is that it only will look up it's "statistics tables" to give you an answer... No actual calculations... Maybe we could keep it working by requesting a 4000 word novel each hour... And turn off the app notifications. This will definitely cost them a lot of calculational power. ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] dan00@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago

Exactly, everyone here wants to eat the rich, nobody asks how do we set fire to their server. ๐Ÿ˜ข

[โ€“] baropithecus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This seemed impossible so I went to verify it and got gaslit by a fucking machine. I hate this tech so much.

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[โ€“] DankyDankDank@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

I thankfully don't use WhatsApp but almost all of my friends and family use Messenger.

Managed to ween my family off of Messenger but instead if Signal, they joined on Telegram.

Progress, I suppose? As long as its not Meta, I'm happy with it.

But seriously, screw Meta and their Meta AI bullcrap.

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 days ago (7 children)

It is easy to disable, just follow this basic steps:

  1. uninstall WhatsApp
  2. install and use Delta Chat
  3. Enjoy ๐ŸŽ‰
[โ€“] LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works 35 points 5 days ago (10 children)
  1. You can't talk with anyone, because no one uses your preferred FOSS, privacy respecting app.
  2. You try to convince people who don't care about privacy to use some obscure app, with higher learning curve, and lack of features to comunicate just with one person.

You can suceed in some cases, but it's not as simple, as just downloading privacy respecting app.

[โ€“] P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

FOSS fanboys are so delusional they forget people don't even care for their weird apps. And if I remember correctly, Delta Chat is for XMPP

[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not really, I like Delta Chat because the usability, no other app gave me the same peace of mind and reliability in bad connectivity areas (which I find myself often)

As for the family and friends that use it with me, they certainly don't use it because encryption and privacy, I don't even advertise the privacy and freedom much or try to make them uninstall whatever other apps they use for chatting, they use it because it is the way to reach me and it solves a problem for them.

And Delta Chat is not XMPP, at least for now

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[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (9 children)

10/10 foreveralone experience

[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@Comtief @adbenitez I think the best alternative to WhatsApp, which at least isn't META and is relatively secure, is Telegram. The rest are difficult to use because they have few users.

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes I use telegram daily, but generally everyone here where i live uses Facebook messenger.

[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@Comtief Try switching to Telegram. Meta is never an option. Between them and Google, you'll never have privacy.

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i said I use telegram to which you replied i should switch to telegram. I swear half the people on this platform are high..

[โ€“] dbencom@masto.es 1 points 2 days ago

@Comtief Hahaha, sorry. I didn't read it correctly. English isn't my native language either. Cheers ๐Ÿ‘‹๐Ÿป

[โ€“] iviyohane@tkz.one 1 points 2 days ago

@dbencom @Comtief Telegram doesn't even offer E2EE by default, it's as worse as unencrypted RCS, and you share a lot of metadata with the company.

Signal, SimpleX, even XMPP+OMEMO and Delta Chat are way better than Telegram if we talk about privacy/security.

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[โ€“] Tweak@feddit.uk 2 points 3 days ago

If only workplaces would stop using WhatsApp.

[โ€“] whaleross@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

I asked how we should commence to eat the rich and it typed out like five paragraphs before retracting everything and claim it didn't speak my language.

[โ€“] titi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Just switch man. I'm using signal for 2-3 years but only recently completely deleted whatsapp. Some close folks are already there or have now created accounts. Some prefer to send SMS. I'm not the center of the universe so I can live with losing out on some groups (which ones do you even really need?) and lose chats with more distant folks.

[โ€“] Mr_Mofu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Since my Parents are only on that for chatting, I can't switch. What options are there for me

[โ€“] brrt@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 days ago (9 children)

โ€œI will delete my WhatsApp on -date- because I can no longer justify using a product made by a company, Meta, that is in such stark contrast with my ethics.

You can reach me via Signal, a messenger that works just like WhatsApp. It is very easy to set up, but I will gladly help you do so.โ€

What are they going to do? Not talk to you anymore because of a little piece of software that is so easily replaced? If so, is it even worth talking to them?

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[โ€“] adbenitez@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago

Your parents can use something else to message you, for other people they can switch to SMS in worse case, just uninstall the app with a goodbye message once you are not there there will be some real reasons for other people to join you elsewhere,

There was a time where there was no WhatsApp and no one died because of it, true there might be some extra inconveniences but the question is if you have the will to do the change, I deleted WhatsApp and things are OK so far I am not using Signal either, I use Delta Chat and email mainly

[โ€“] Panda@lemmy.today 9 points 5 days ago

Try to get them to switch to Signal if you can. I helped my 70+ year old mother switch with no problems because the UI is similar to WhatsApp and Telegram so it didn't take her long to get used to it.

Just delete the crap finally.

[โ€“] anguo@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 days ago

That is the only question I asked it, back when it appeared on my phone.

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