That’s very, very bold considering:
And signal like Threema explicitly doesn’t collect anything about you whatsoever (like yes outside of the phone number as expected but I’m talking all other metadata, they have nothing on anyone on anybody). They have proved it in subopenas, they prove it in their open source code (server and client) and audits anyways.
Not to mention, there’s a reason @jonah mentioned that specific point. He’s not wrong no matter what, when he says that it is already hard to convince people to get the to use something like Signal (yes I could pay threema on behalf of them or make them choose to do so but with our general consensus locally in my country being that messengers are generally free, I doubt the second one would work at all.), but making them pay for app (While commendable from an ethical business standpoint), it already blows that “Trying to convince them to use it” out of porportion (And this is literally my experience speaking, I’ve seen people in life who frown upon paying for a service but if it’s free, they’re more willing to consider).
And if I’m being honest a lot of the reason I convinced my second friend to signal is because of stickers, I doubt threema has something similar… And with it being on beeper I have alot more chances here than threema as well.