I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?

It is a little bit whonky to ask someone you just met to download Signal, if it is a group of people then it is more acceptable, or like how do you keep in contact if they don’t use any of the messaging platforms you use such as Signal and Telegram, and if you don’t use any of the ones they use such as Whatsapp or Instagram DMs (yes zoomers in the US use these) or Snapchat? Do you just use SMS where videos are absolute shit quality and you have no privacy there either?

Let me know how you deal with this issue.

  • Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Bonus for the privacy-conscious; It has better privacy and cryptography.

    This is highly questionable, but it should be mentioned that it is radically worse if you don’t use “secret chats” (less convenient), the normal ones don’t even have end-to-end encryption.

    PS: It’s quite bizarre to answer directly to someone to discredit, but without giving the opportunity to refute…

    • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      PS: It’s quite bizarre to answer directly to someone to discredit, but without giving the opportunity to refute…

      It’s called not being a toxic reply guy. You should try it.