This season of family gatherings is a great moment to persuade your relatives to install the Signal App @signalapp in their phones as a way to get your photos of the events. Then setup a family group chat with them all so that there's a reason to start and then continue using it.
That's one path to wean them off whatsapp and even worse messenger apps. At the very least your own communications within the family will happen outside those privacy nightmarish ever-hungry gargantuan for-profit corporations.
@albertcardona @signalapp I’ve given up on that battle!
@steveroyle @albertcardona @signalapp I honestly have been loathe to try because of certain behaviors of Signal (such as other devices frequently coming unlinked and conversation histories not showing up on other devices) that degrade the user experience, presumably in favor of greater security. If it allowed one to tune some of those behaviors to fit the user's own view of the trade-offs it would make it easier to sell folks on, I think. Of course, I recognize that means extra development work.
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The users we are discussing here are non-techie family members that would use Signal from their phones only, like they'd use SMS.
@albertcardona I think the issue of persistence of conversations will be relevant to such users when they switch devices (since it stinks to lose all the history of your family/friends group chats), and even for not-very -tech-savvy users if they have something like a tablet then the device linking comes up (since this works pretty well with iMessage and even reasonably well with SMS on android). @steveroyle @signalapp
