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Best alternative to WhatsApp?
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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2024
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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.
That really depends on the country that the family member is moving to, and is not an absolute thing world-wide.
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
Do you think signal's voice quality is not as good as whatsapp? It might be because they have less servers than whatsapp
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