Because on every occasion – at least in the case of Signal – they tried to switch, it was a far inferior experience for them, and the leadership behind the app/service took such puritanical decisions that it became evident that the ideology was more important than the people those tools were supposed to help/protect. I don't even bother asking my friends now. In fact, now, for me as well, those (Signal, Matrix, etc.) are just things collecting dust on my spare phone.
Honestly, when or if eu chat control happens I'll just delete all of those applications and never tell anyone, I am not gonna use sms either
People are lazy
Partially, it's because the incumbent platforms are just much better.... Discord is really good.
I have got some people to move to signal though. I don't touch Facebook messenger.
Honestly, I've just made new friends. If I had to drop friends and family because they refused to move over, that's fine. I can just make some new friends.
The crux is that all the alternatives suck. I don't have a problem going App hopping, I just have a very hard time finding ones that don't fundamentally suck, and I am not talking about little implementation issue, but garbage like Signal that violates the GDPR, wants your phone number and is proud of it. Always grinds my gears when that gets celebrated as the "alternative". Same with the Fediverse, where user owns nothing and server operator controls everything, how again is that different from Reddit, Facebook and Co.?
Nostr and Tox seem ok so far, but really the amount of true alternatives that improve on the original in significant ways is pretty damn rare.
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