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[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 61 points 6 days ago

I still haven't found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

[-] teije9 21 points 6 days ago

use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Can you get that to work with all messages or only a few groups you have to setup manually? Was looking into it before I started self hosting but didn't find it desirable at that time and just resorted to do what anon did.

[-] teije9 3 points 5 days ago

all messages. and it works really well!

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

Not everyone has the possibility to self-host

[-] teije9 8 points 6 days ago

you can join public instances, and maybe even make them set it up for you.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you're paying for?

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

It's a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It's when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it's more like 3-4€.

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 11 points 6 days ago

I just don't communicate with anyone that insists on using products that have user agreements I don't agree with. The amount of bullshit user agreements are getting overloaded with makes them dangerous legal contracts that can have serious implications on your rights. Just ask the family whose daughter died at a Disney theme park and when they tried to sue Disney tried to force them to arbitration because their son had tried Disney+

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 14 points 6 days ago

Well evidently you're not in charge of anyone's healthcare: when you have a parent that has to be taken care of, you have to compromise if they're not able to adapt

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

I'd rather use SMS than sign my rights over to Meta. They can use that if they can use facebook or whatsapp.

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

You cannot attach medical prescriptions to SMS

[-] Routhinator@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

Wow. In Canada you cannot get prescription renewals any other way

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

If they're serious about talking to you, they'll budge. Call their bluff.

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