Hi Everyone!
First, a huge thank you for the incredibly warm welcome to the Fediverse. The kindness from this community has been overwhelming, and such a contrast to the platforms I've left behind.
Now, I've gone down a total rabbit hole investigating more ethical tech. I've just realised that if I'm deleting Meta from my life, WhatsApp should probably go too. I'd love to know what you think are the best alternatives. Signal? Matrix/Element?
From a prior poster on this feed. I found it useful and shared it with my friends...
I defer to you. I recently exited the #MacOS world to #Linux and this is one area I am completely confused about.
Problem with any alternatives on the laptop/desktop is... there is no easy/direct way to use SMS and related protocols... you have to be on a phone system to participate unless you use Apple, Meta, Goog, etc. (Again as far as I can tell.) There used to be email to text gateways, but those have been shut down by the major tele-carriers.
So I do much less texting. Slows me down a bit socially, but my friends are learning to look for me on email instead.
Looking into it now. Had to talk to the Delta Airlines chatbot first. 😉
Referring to a relevant #xkcd panel on their main page gave them instant cred.
Will see how far I can get. Thanks!
Sophie Kazandjian
Richard Rathe
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