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In Europe it's just the other way round. Everyone but me uses WhatsApp and are too stupid to use SMS. Lemmings, all of them. /rant.
I'd be happy if people would just use signal, but no, it's goddam SMS, Snapchat, Instagram DMS, nothing with any kind of privacy or security. Just fucking awful.
I spun up a private matrix server for my immediate family, and I have gotten a few friends on it, but the vast majority just don't care and it's pretty frustrating