although I like the app, I’m always ending up alone in there. It’s so damn hard to bring people from the close circle to join anything else than a WhatsApp group 😩

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Especially if they are over 50, but even younger generations are absurdly stuck to whatsapp and would go to any lenghts to defend it, even though it's literally like 3 taps to install a better chat app...

The world if fallling apart because of ignorance and bliss.

[–] kaulquappus@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago

A big factor when changing messengers (at least for me) is losing the upstream of years and years of searchable messages in the same app

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

People in their fifties used IRC when the Internet first became popular.

[–] hiraeth@digitalcourage.social 1 points 3 hours ago

@starlinguk @buyfromeu People in their fifties were happy when their Modem could transmit 4800kbit instead of 2400

[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

The majority of people in their fifties haven't used the internet when the Internet first became popular.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

My lot are still on Messenger 😒