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”
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As always, you can check out the community’s pinned post to get started: https://lemmy.world/post/40065381
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.