How do you convince your friends to switch to Telegram / Signal (or sth similar)?

I would really like to use Signal but none of my friends use it...

You would never expect it

Yeah I need help convincing people to join Allo, I am tired of only talking to the Google Assistant

I simply told the people I got to use Signal (telegram is a no go for me regarding privacy) that its more privacy friendly and all the pro's and cons. Also, since I refuse to use Telegram and WhatsApp, tbh, they didnt have much choice. But most people I introduced to it like signal!

@linuxxx
I hope that one day maybe in you website you will explain why you don't like Telegram so much even trying to compare it to WhatsApp.

@shelladdicted very simple. Their crypto has been criticized a lot by experts and they save way too much metadata than would be required to operate the service :)

A year ago told my friends I stop using WhatsApp and they should install Signal. None of them cared ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@linuxxx
Sometime ago I read about MTProto issues.
But then why no one took the 300k$ prize?
And a lot of them are based on SS7 vulnerabilities. That can be "patched" using 2FA.

"Normal" people want to make a backup of their chats when they change their phone.

Signal doesn't allow that.

Whatsapp suggest to store the backup on cloud
And if you don't there a huge probability that the people on the other side of the chat will.

And I think that the telegram cloud is more safe than Gdrive

Discalaimer: I am NOT saying that telegram is better than signal.
But thanks to his "fancy" features it's easier that a large mass of people will use it.

@linuxxx Telegram is soposed to take privacy very seriously. They emphasize it a lot on their website.

Many of my friends are parents. I simply ask them if they would be ok with the world knowing what park their kid will be playing in at 1530 on Tuesday.

When they say no, I tell them to install signal on their phone and partner's phone.

Bit extreme, but while *most likely* their child is safe, a little extra security might make it easier to protect them.