I’ve recently discovered element and revolt as alternatives for discord and Snapchat. We mainly use Snapchat for text chat so not being able to send snaps is not a deal-breaker. It’s quite difficult to get people to switch over to something else because they know their current service and “it just works”. Snapchat for android is terrible and some of my friends agree so I wouldn’t say that “It just works”. I need some tips as to how to convince them to switch. Thanks in advance :-)
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Why not try Signal? Very simple and works easy on Android.
I have signal and it’s great. I don’t know too many people that use it, but my family very close friends use it. But I need kind of a discord server structure with channels and categories and element and revolt seems to do just that. I’m not gonna use revolt after I found out they were involved in crypto + the app is a bit too early in development for me. Element seems to be the most promising when it comes to organising server wise.
Just delete your account on the old service. I deleted Whatsapp and most of my close friends were unwilling to install „another app“ at first.
I was fine with their point of view and we started texting via SMS. After a while they realized that switching is more comfortable than writing via SMS and they were fine.
Only works for close friends though. Others may simply cut ties then
Revolt looked rather promising even though I had never heard of it. I wanted try it and downloaded their app. I was very surprised to learn they require Google Play (services) to function and that alone is big red flag to me… As well as Microsoft Store? There’s a GitHub page linked to it, but the fact that they recommend MS Store creeps me out
There is a version on F Droid that doesn’t need GPS. If you’re talking about desktop, on linux it doesn’t require anything else.
Fair warning that Element is not anywhere close to being as polished as Discord, but it doesn’t hurt to just suggest to try it out and see what the reception is like. As others have said you probably don’t push the matter too hard but it doesn’t hurt to ask and lay out your reasons.
