Not possible

However as you are in the EU, Facebook have to add 3rd party support to whatsapp. So that people on whatsapp can still message users who are not on whatsapp. Later in the future, group support will be added.

No time frame of when it goes live.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24063705/whatsapp-interoperability-plans-eu-dma/

This has been my worry that some big tech company buys it out. There is latitude and longitude. But its not as easy to remember.

What’s stopping someone from enabling debug mode, downloading adb tools and running pm uninstall --user0 then the package name? Surely with the app removed, the app can’t brick your phone. Or running a custom rom like lineage or graphine os?

Says signal sucks without actually trying it. Just create a group chat put a link in, job done

I think it’s worth it.

Just simply send a link along with that’s generally better and that lots of people are moving over. Watomatic could be looked into as a way to automatically remind people you are on signal when they go to Facebook you. It would then prompt then to install signal.

I take the attitude if they want to contact me either, phone, email or text.

There are none. As its Facebook.

You are better of inviting them to Signal. If they know how to use WhatsApp, then they know how to use Signal. It’s designed to be as easy as possible, while secure and private.

What could possibly go wrong?

What could possibly go wrong?

Neither

Overall, use Signal, but telegram has more features than WhatsApp. So much that WhatsApp at this point is just copying telegram.