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Here in India, Whatsapp is pretty much a basic utility. A small vocal percentage moved to Signal around the time of Whatsapp's privacy policy furore. But anecdotally, most of them have moved back to Whatsapp because ditching it would mean ditching contact with most of their social circle.

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I don't even get the idea of "moving" messengers.

Using several messengers is what enables competition between them in the first place. It's great for the ecosystem. All messages end up in my notification bar anyway, irrespective of the underlying app.

In my German peer group almost everyone is on Signal as well as WhatsApp. (... and Telegram, for that matter.)

Nobody "moved".

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