One of the biggest problems when trying to convince someone to use Signal as a primary daily driver for messaging is losing the ability to easily create stickers specifically animated ones, From the APNG format to the size limit passing by the problem of some of them not having PC at all, So is their any solutions to that kind of problems?
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Looks like 300kb is the size limit.
If you’re trying to get people to jump to signal for you, you might be stuck converting their sticker packs for them until you get them close enough. I get that some people really love stickers, but you can also only do so much to convince people. It’s entirely possible it’s just an excuse for someone to resist change.
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I don’t know this particular situation, but from experience, I’ve learned that these are almost always “excuses”: whoever doesn’t want to do something will always invent excuses not to do it. Today it’s stickers, tomorrow “that beautiful GIF,” the day after tomorrow “that group there,” etc., etc…
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Yeah, I think the only way to make this happen is you need the majority of a network to move over rather than focusing on specific or a small group of individuals. As advocates we need to take care of our own fatigue in sharing information as we will just come off as annoying and become another reason folks resist change because it feels forced.
There’s a reason why WhatsApp sold for so much and it wasn’t technical. I’m currently vacationing in LATAM and WhatsApp logosare literally smothered across taxi cabs, billboards, and restaurants as methods to promote local economies. Facebook wanted to skip the slow painful process of growing that adoption and since Signal isn’t providing new features, it’s really a tough sell for many who don’t have a visceral knowledge of what it means to lose your privacy to surveillance capitalism. Until you or someone close to you is put in danger or are directly impacted, it won’t make sense to have yet another messenger. We as advocates have to understand this and simply share information as stripped of urgency and emotion as possible, with as many as possible. Be ready to have conversations with family, friends, and folks in your communities when they do find it valuable.
In this way, you’ll see a higher success rate of either planting seeds of ideas, or helping grow the seeds that are already there. This will help you feel a lot less helpless and fatigued in sharing this information.
The purpose of the question is using stickers not to find “excuses” as I am asking for myself as a very old signal user and for the people who will find that as a problem cause “Why would I leave something for another thing less convenient?” will be the question for the invited people to use Signal.
@Valynor The old title was more interesting/catchy and that’s why I used it instead of an ordinary one.
I have personally never once had anyone complain about stickers with respect to Signal, even online…
If this is true, it’s absolutely amazing (horrid, actually) how far people will go to not respect their own privacy. If the only thing stopping me from moving to another instant messaging app (assuming we are excluding data privacy) are stickers, I would want everyone I talk to to tell me to re-evaluate myself.
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cry all you want but the sticker method to me was super effective to move my friends to signal and my friends are sane individuals, not some horrid idiots.
You should be grateful this is even a reason you can get others to move to signal than absolutely no reason to give
to be fair, yes this was not a very effective method, one I was unable to convince but also to be fair to me they were a very shy individual it was the first time and not that easy to get by last moment. Also 1 loss 2 wins is better than more losses less wins
I genuinely wonder if you’re here to not even read or understand anything before posting and mock anyone… This repeated is not at all making a good impression, in fact it’s way worse than a bad first impression. [Now I completely understand why there’s people think anonymity in forums like these can be pretty bad (not is but can)]
I do not understand your point. I did not say that it was not effective in switching people to Signal. I said that if preserving one’s privacy is not enough to get one to switch, and if I were in that position, I would criticize myself. Basically expressing the opinion that it’s absurd not to switch to Signal. It is not any more different than complaining, in the first place, that my friends aren’t moving to Signal, just in a different manner. What point did you think I was making? And what point are you trying to make?
As for your other point here:
I do not understand what you are trying to mean, so please maybe reiterate. Are you saying that I am using anonymous mode to deliberately make the forum worse, or something? What does that have to do with this?
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For the first part must be misunderstanding on my part then, I apologize for that misunderstanding.
As for the last one, there was another that you replied “I haven’t read the replies yet” in basically another thread yet insisted on replying, why? Why not read them first?