Perfect is the enemy of the good.

Just see it as a first step. Signal is still better than WhatsApp being owned by Meta. If we get more people of WhatsApp, in the future there might be more European alternatives.

There are no big European alternatives the majority of people are willing to switch.

I got rid of WhatsApp last year myself and could only convince 8 people to use Signal. I tried Threema and Matrix, but most normal people are not willing to do this and don’t care they give up their data and so on…

I am thankful for reddit becoming a mess and Trump made me ditch american companies anyway.

Otherwise I never would have discovered Lemmy.

Ah thank you very much for enlighten me about Graphene OS, that so far the best description I have seen.

Used Aurora before on Android too.

I probably will wait until they find a way to not be dependent on Google services, as I want them to have no data at all, if I have the chance to do it.

Hopefully there will be more alternatives in the future. But we will see where it will go with Google trying to stop side loading.

Does it mean that you basically cannot use apps then, which require Google Services? Or how does it exactly work there?

Currently trying e/Os and wanted to look into Graphene and Lineage to see the which one works the best. I just don’t want to use anything from google.

Quite late reply, but maybe something helpful for you.

Try to discover a new Hobby, Sport. Join a lobrary, take a physical book and read it outside.

I highly can recommend voluntary work, good to meet new people and doing something good gives you a good feeling.

I made a hard cut and got rid of all social media, really reduced reading the news as everything feels very toxic online atm.

Exactly, your first point says it all. People will always go for the original.

Instead of having a own program and plan, they just say we onlz deport 50% of what AFD says…

With this tactic we are doomed in Germany and AFD will win the next election.