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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • You left out two important real world aspects from your thought experiment.

    1. one person cares about a specific aspect of the messenger - privacy - and the other doesn’t care, they are just on whatever their peers told them to be on. So if their messenger happens to have the aspect I care about I’ll do it. Since they don’t have any such criteria I expect them to do it as well.

    2. If that person is important enough for me and doesn’t budge I’ll call or E-Mail them. Which is less private than an e2ee messenger, but more private than data harvesting companies.


  • I just told everybody that I only reply on Threema and don’t use anything else.

    My thought process was - if they can’t be arsed to use another app (which is an extremely effortless task to do) then they are probably not worth staying in contact with.

    The 3 people that were most important in my life at that point got the app immediately.

    After over a decade with threema I now have over 40 contacts there, mostly friends, some colleagues, multiple hobby centric groups etc.

    I guess just start and don’t compromise and be patient