Comment by Semaphor
3 years ago
> Indeed, especially now that Telegram is taking off by times in Europe (in Belgium / Spain / France at least Telegram is getting used by a lot of people)
Interesting, here in Germany, almost everyone I know has Signal and WhatsApp with some people using only one of them. Telegram I encountered from one US American living here, and from people into conspiracy theories.
In my experience here in Germany, Signal usage has increased drastically in the last two years. When my daughter started a new school, I got enlisted in the parents group on Signal. Previously, parent groups or anything similar was an exclusive WhatsApp territory.
As for Telegram, people mostly use it to consume news. It basically replaced RSS readers for common people. Although its install base is relatively high, I have yet to receive a single private message over Telegram.
When you're making these claims... are you actually looking at any aggregate survey or numbers... or are you doing the typical biased bubble "I've looked at 15 people I know" thing?
I thought I had added "I know", but apparently I missed that, apologies. Fixed now. The 2nd sentence had the relevant "I encountered" part, not the first.