I have started using privacy respecting software as much as I can for a while now. Particularly social media. I started with deleting my reddit account, and then one by one deleted twitter, instagram and all. The one thing I couldn’t leave was whatsapp. I just cannot seem to leave it. Not just friends and family, but outside too. My mentor just use whatsapp for all types of communication except for some absolutely formal documents, where he uses email. Otherwise he doesn’t seem to respond to email.
So, my question: If you have made the switch, have you convinced your peers to also make the switch?
I changed my profile picture to something like this and quit all the nonfree social apps one by one after a few months. Currently I have onboarded 3 or 4 friends on XMPP with the profile pic, though they just call it Quicksy. Family still use whatsapp and have no means to text me other than sms.
EDIT: here’s the template, feel free to make a copy and edit https://cryptpad.disroot.org/diagram/#/2/diagram/view/wSR3FAgY9EhEXhuuVnRsk9AvPYdEPFGFg2fOaL7y68w/