Edit - y’all are awesome! I’m gonna check out all of these - thank you!!

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A family member is moving out of country and convinced the best way to keep in touch is with WhatsApp. I really don’t want to install any Meta shit on my phone.

Any recommendation for a FOSS or other alternative from a company that’s less of an ethical dumpster fire?

  • jbaber@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    305·
    6 days ago

    For my family member who moved out of country, signal’s voice quality was not very good. WhatsApp’s quality was better than a regular phone call, very impressive.

    Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she’ll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

    There’s also jitsi.

    • riot@lemmy.world
      10·
      6 days ago

      Also, outside the US WhatsApp is some kind of standard the way rich Americans think iMessage is. Companies will ask her to contact them on WhatsApp, so she’ll have to have it regardless of your personal involvement.

      That really depends on the country that the family member is moving to, and is not an absolute thing world-wide.

    • Vitaly@feddit.uk
      6·
      6 days ago

      Do you think signal’s voice quality is not as good as whatsapp? It might be because they have less servers than whatsapp

      • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Whatsapp and telegram calls are P2P for contacts by default. P2P might reduce call issues which i’m not sure signal does that or not

    • Rinox@feddit.it
      2·
      6 days ago

      Here goes to hoping that EU massages Whatsapp third party compatibility actually works. It would be great if Signal decided to enter the program, so that I could start recommending it to friends and family as a full on replacement, while not losing the ability to communicate with those who use WhatsApp.

      I understand Signal stance, but it would honestly be better to have a mainstream alternative to Whatsapp that actually cares about privacy, rather than a niche product nobody uses