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Does all that and still used WhatsApp lol
I still haven't found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise
use matrix with the whatsapp bridge
Can you get that to work with all messages or only a few groups you have to setup manually? Was looking into it before I started self hosting but didn't find it desirable at that time and just resorted to do what anon did.
all messages. and it works really well!
Not everyone has the possibility to self-host
you can join public instances, and maybe even make them set it up for you.
While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.
Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you're paying for?
It's a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It's when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it's more like 3-4€.
I just don't communicate with anyone that insists on using products that have user agreements I don't agree with. The amount of bullshit user agreements are getting overloaded with makes them dangerous legal contracts that can have serious implications on your rights. Just ask the family whose daughter died at a Disney theme park and when they tried to sue Disney tried to force them to arbitration because their son had tried Disney+
Well evidently you're not in charge of anyone's healthcare: when you have a parent that has to be taken care of, you have to compromise if they're not able to adapt
I'd rather use SMS than sign my rights over to Meta. They can use that if they can use facebook or whatsapp.
You cannot attach medical prescriptions to SMS
Wow. In Canada you cannot get prescription renewals any other way
Easy choice. No such nasty crAPP (pun intended) will touch my innocent phone. If they wouldn't even install a safe(er) app for their kid, then that's already enough communication.
Well life is all about what morals you decide to follow, I've evidently chosen the one where I'm handing over a small amount of privacy to be less of a pain in the ass to the people around me.
And the main reasons are:
I don't see what these points have to do with WhatsApp and co? You can't take care of them if you don't install some shitty app they decided to use? And they won't listen to you if you don't use the same app? Age is no sign of competence. One should listen to the one more competent in discussed matter. No matter the age or whatever else attribute.
Besides...it's not really just "a small amount of privacy". You're on Lemmy, so I just assume you somehow know better.
If they're serious about talking to you, they'll budge. Call their bluff.