> Signal brought e2e encryption to the masses in a form that was and is usable.
The general users do not care, just like how no-one cares about the inventor of the smartphone and Apple repackaged it and brought out the iPhone to billions of users.
Therefore, WhatsApp is the chosen one because in reality and contrary to what the herd believe here on HN, research [0] shows that even when Signal was boosted by some famous people, 'the masses' gave up using Signal when migrated and instead moved back to WhatsApp or Telegram.
I think Signal has done a terrible job at selling itself and retaining its users migrated from other messengers and was only riding on the back of boosters that don't even use it, which allowed Signal to get distracted and rush and push in a private cryptocurrency project useful to criminals and scammers to execute a pump and dump scheme for the founders.
The level of delusion in the comments about that so-called 'mass migration' or great 'messenger migration' to Signal seems to be as present as a haunted house.
What a shame. And nope, anecdotes is not evidence.
> but only 0.5% uninstalled WhatsApp. Let me put these numbers into perspective: if we translated this result to the entire population of WhatsApp users (approx. 2 billion), we’d be talking about 500 million users trying to flee from WhatsApp, and only 10k uninstalling it
0.5% of 2 billion is 10 million not 10k, which incidentally corresponds quite closely (within order of magnitude) to the number of people who downloaded signal at the time. As a side note if someone argues with numbers and is 3 orders of magnitude of in their calculation are their conclusions still valid? It doesn't give a good look.
But actually there were events, when millions of users migrated to Signal, from Whatsapp. Like the last time when Whatsapp was down. So it is not as onesided as you make it out to be.
The general users do not care, just like how no-one cares about the inventor of the smartphone and Apple repackaged it and brought out the iPhone to billions of users.
Therefore, WhatsApp is the chosen one because in reality and contrary to what the herd believe here on HN, research [0] shows that even when Signal was boosted by some famous people, 'the masses' gave up using Signal when migrated and instead moved back to WhatsApp or Telegram.
I think Signal has done a terrible job at selling itself and retaining its users migrated from other messengers and was only riding on the back of boosters that don't even use it, which allowed Signal to get distracted and rush and push in a private cryptocurrency project useful to criminals and scammers to execute a pump and dump scheme for the founders.
The level of delusion in the comments about that so-called 'mass migration' or great 'messenger migration' to Signal seems to be as present as a haunted house.
What a shame. And nope, anecdotes is not evidence.
[0] https://medium.com/@carlagriggio/the-great-messaging-app-mig...