Perhaps a silly question, but what do y’all with privacy-indifferent friends do for chatting? I have signal for a few friends, and telegram for my spammy computer science friend group chat, but the great majority of my friends are iMessage/SMS/Facebook contactable only (and I deleted Facebook).

How do you either convince them to switch or limit your privacy risk in chatting with them?

@jenn Not silly at all! But be ready for them not budging. If they are on Android, Signal is the best first step since you can still use SMS. Ease them into it!
I wrote a guide: securechatguide.org/guide_sign
Also send them scary articles like the ones linked here:
securechatguide.org/otherwebsi

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