This comes after $8.03 billion from a one-time tax benefit tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which promised to “create jobs”
Stop using Big Tech’s products. Support smaller businesses
As always, you can check out the community’s pinned post to get started: https://lemmy.world/post/40065381
Signal is a pretty good alternative. It took me a year or so to convince all the people i want to talk with, to make the move. But totally worth it.
have you guys encountered problems with notifications not working?
It happened when i was using it on Lineage, but no problem on android. Did you check the permissions?
I’ll recommend that if it happens again. Unfortunately one of my contacts is a boomer that’s very far, but it happened to my wife recently.
Yes, that’s the one that comes to mind, but like you say it’s a bit of a challenge getting people over.
Plus it needs a phone #, I think? My kids don’t have a phone number. And it’s still American…
You do need a phone number, and it is indeed american, even though it’s a non profit and they never did anything sketchy as far as i know.
If you want something private, without phone number, EU based and easy to install and use, then Olvid is for you. Remains the problem to bring people over, but you can keep using whatsapp in the same time until everybody you care about migrates.