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by colesantiago·4y ago·view on hn ↗
> Don't project that laziness onto the entire populace, enabling others to feel comfortable that it's "too hard" to use Signal....that's awful.

Unfortunately WhatsApp has a lot more staying power and social inertia than you would ever realise, regardless of how large a social circle is, and your anecdote doesn't change that either.

Until Signal supports all or most of WhatsApp's features I don't see this changing.

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Signal does support most of WhatsApp's features though.
Great, so this means I can use Signal to backup my messages on my old iPhone with an iCloud backup to my new phone right?
You can transfer all your messages from your old iPhone to your new one though[1].

[1] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Ba...

No, supporting most of anything doesn't mean having the one random thing you need as a certainty. But also yes, messages are transferrable.
For most, it's also a deal breaker.
This didn't age very well.
people are still using WhatsApp anyway, thats the whole point.