Admin & sysadmin of a Warframe-focused Lemmy instance at https://dormi.zone.
Developer of a UI mod for Vivaldi Browser: https://github.com/HKayn/vivaldi-vh
I wouldn’t mind if EU made it mandatory for them to be
They did. Signal and Threema just aren’t interested: https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-threema-nothing-to-do-with-whatsapp-eu/
I did it too. Most of my contacts were not willing to switch. My colleagues at work stayed in their WhatsApp group, and many of my close friends did too. I essentially cut myself off from most of my social circles and threw myself into social isolation. Not a good time.
I ended up rejoining WhatsApp and concluded that in this instance, my mental health is more valuable than the privacy I gain by not participating in WhatsApp.
Lemmy users will cancel this for not being hardwired to defederate with Threads
:^)