My problem is rarely how much effort it would take for me to adopt something. It’s the fact that the people I care about and the people around me don’t adopt something.

I have roughly two dozen people in my signal app, to communicate with. Out of the thousands of contacts I’ve managed in the past decades. And I’ve been using it exclusively to replace everything I did in WhatsApp, across this entire year, but the adoption just isn’t there because my cohorts are comfortable with the convenience that Meta affords them.

Everyone agrees that IG and Meta is bad for them, but they can’t be arsed to even move to Signal from Whatsapp.

It’s the closest thing in the union to getting GDPR.

It sucks, it’s always a compromised vision, and I still love us for trying so damned hard to do the right things.

That’s … Likely less than a dollar for each American after lawyers fees.

I’ve noticed many, many Redditors (and by extension Lemmy folks) completely and utterly forget that this is a place for displaying media and messages, and that we are sharing in it socially.