I’ll be deleting my private Instagram at the end of the month. Everyone, consider downloading Signal as a perfectly fine and more secure alternative to WhatsApp. As an insta substitution, I will be trying out Pixelfed. If these apps are no safe space for me, I don’t have space for them - ThreadSky

cyclartist.bsky.social • 58 days ago

I’ll be deleting my private Instagram at the end of the month. Everyone, consider downloading Signal as a perfectly fine and more secure alternative to WhatsApp. As an insta substitution, I will be trying out Pixelfed. If these apps are no safe space for me, I don’t have space for them

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alexdegreine.bsky.social•58 days ago

Thank you for the suggestions. I have been looking for something with chat capabilities without notifying my entire contact list. Also, I only have IG to follow athletes so not sure what else to use as I've deleted my T account. Other meta crap do not use. 😒

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

I will definitely keep my business account on IG too, but I won’t be sharing private stuff anymore and will delete the private account. Those data vampires have had enough of my pictures anyway

alexdegreine.bsky.social•58 days ago

Hadn't shared anything until the other day. 😢 Just needed to put something out into the universe. Also, just set up Signal and I love it. It feels so warm and cosy and I can just communicate with the few people I choose. Thank you again!

thiotrix.bsky.social•58 days ago

I know tons of people, especially those abroad who will want to stay on whatsapp. Apparently there is now the ability to message between Signal and WhatsApp. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/whatsapp-introduces-cross-app-messaging-with-signal-and-telegram/

ee1.nl•58 days ago

Shame, can't find it in my app. Maybe they're still rolling out, or like the article says, maybe they reverted it.

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

Oh love this! Thank you

sedici.me•58 days ago

Its only in beta atm and included within the latest version is AI chatbots so yeah....

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

I don’t use Facebook anyways but if I did, I’d delete that too. Threads will be going as well, Bluesky is better anyways.

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

For all of you that do have my phone number, I won’t delete WhatsApp, but I would love to hear from you on Signal :)

ee1.nl•58 days ago

It's so hard to get the whole of Europe off Whatsapp :( I set up Signal groups with techie friends but otherwise ... *everyone* & their grandma is on whatsapp. "I'll app you!" "Stuur me een appje!"

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yeah true, literally ALL of us are 😭 somewhere else in this thread someone linked a possible way to cross-message between signal and WhatsApp

caityc.bsky.social•58 days ago

Notably most of my various global govt dept & other clients use Signal for our group delegation & project chats. WA strictly 🚫

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

That’s so cool honestly. I’m still working on getting more people over there

jesurlenet.bsky.social•58 days ago

WhatsApp will be difficult to shoot because it's messager for family and friends.
Factualy it's just a messager

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yeah I know. I won’t be able to delete it for a long time either. But I’m converting more and more people to signal ☺️

johnste29.bsky.social•58 days ago

Signal is very good, been using it several years now

ladystarblade.bsky.social•58 days ago

Signal has been a great messaging app that doesn’t require access to your whole contact list to use it.

I’m keeping my IG active just enough to keep them from shutting it down and giving my username back out, but yeah. I’ve never liked IG anyway, blah.

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

Yeah I’ll keep my “business” one as it is a means of contacting people and I sometimes get business requests via it, but other than that, I’m done with the app

ladystarblade.bsky.social•58 days ago

I never got the app, only accessed it via the browser, and as a result it wouldn’t let me do a bunch of things. I refused to buckle down and get it, hah.

cyclartist.bsky.social•58 days ago

Love this honestly, you did not give in!!

ladystarblade.bsky.social•58 days ago

I’m a stubborn wench, make no mistake! 🤣

darrenhayes.bsky.social•58 days ago

I deleted FB after the brexit vote interference, twitter went at Christmas

Was talking with my wife about whatsapp, not heard of signal so will check it out

sedici.me•58 days ago

Was in the process of demetaifying anyway for data privacy reasons but yeah this is gross AF. I'll go to Pixelfed too

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