What you were hoping for was no change in your life. You gave a scenario and a solution was provided to you. You’re taking no responsibility, and want no change in convenience. How can you expect the ignorant to move off of WhatsApp if even the informed won’t do it?

I did the method suggested above and the vast majority of my contacts eventually moved to Signal, those that didn’t switched to old fashioned SMS to contact me. You are not missing out by not being a part of one specific messaging app, there are many out there.

He lost, it’s been generating power since 2018! 😄

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Offshore_Wind_Deployment_Centre#Objections

I think you’re forgetting the power of consumers. At work you might not be able to replace Photoshop or Microsoft but at home you certainly can. The more people that become familiar with alternative software the more likely professional environments are to adopt it.

Why would a company want to pay Adobe or Microsoft if their employees are more adept with free alternatives? Especially if those alternatives gain feature parity with the paid services while the paid services lock parts behind paywalls and subscriptions.

Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!

What does this mean?

Originally I thought you meant 2 million out of 15 million people but Turkey’s population is 86 million

If the idea is to avoid American, and support European. Purchasing from a middleman European company is hardly supporting European.

Most of the money ultimately still ends up in American hands, just the tiny bit of profit added on during the final sale to the consumer remains European. Everything else goes back to America.

If I sold you a packet of bananas, and told you they’re Irish bananas because it’s an Irish company selling them, you’d call me a liar because obviously Ireland doesn’t have the climate to grow bananas. It’s the same principle.

If it’s not European, don’t put the star on, it’s pretty simple.