NotJohnSmith

Hah, thanks. I had no idea it was Russian backed. I dropped it over the weekend. The only issue is I'm now solely on WhatsApp as none of my friends/family are behind this movement.

It makes alot of sense.

I'm actively trying to limit my reliance on US technology, and while I appreciate Signal is a US organisation I'm going to have to make compromises and adopt a "least bad" mentality

Thanks for the detailed reply, will do as only a couple of mates have adopted it anyway and they're double bagging with WhatsApp anyway

Oops, I didn't realise. I'd not fully adopted so will pivot. Ta

I use Telegram, like betamax have I backed the wrong horse?

I'm genuinely so excited to have actually encountered one in the wild. That is, someone that is trying to claim that Elon didn't sieg heil multiple times. Fascinating, they said people would but I just didn't believe them

I feel bad that as consumers at best we label all under Trump's banner, at worst we don't have the ability to punish only the red states like government tariffs can do

Stay strong

Yup, me too. By coincidence I've moved from us platform to an non-us one so that nice too.

The idea isn't to eliminate all spend, it's the low hanging fruit and then go from there. I'm seeing it as a game with badges to collect!!