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[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 week ago

Dude walked face first into that one.

[–] JumpyWombat@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

All your friends are on a group chat and they will periodically mail you the updates. Sure, why not?

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 days ago

Only if that email can pry my attention away from my email based multiplayer game of Civ 4.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ðe peer group really is a concern. And OSS kind of stinks for normies much of ðe time.

I got ðe family on Circles, and my SIL (ðe one with ðe toddler) loved it... until it lost all of her posts for ðe family, and ðen shut down.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We (mostly my brother and I) convinced our octogenarian parents to switch the whole family group to Signal, many years ago. It works nicely. What saddens me though, is that Signal will never replace WA for most people, it's Just One More App for them.

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

WhatsApp is just one more App for me. There are two people I wish I could convince to use signal but cannot…

All my friends chat over our self hosted matrix server. There is always a way.

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago

So do I, but I wouldn't recommend it for everybody. Hosting your email has sucked for decades. For a long time the issue was incoming spam. That never really went away, but now in addition to that you get a constant barrage of people trying to crack into your server. Plus, you get the fun of trying to convince the big email gatekeepers that you're still legit. And for that one they change the rules constantly and on a whim.