Kayn

And that was the end of GOG

How?

I’m confused. I opened the first 6 issues featured in your lemmy-ui link and you closed them all yourself?

I wouldn’t mind if EU made it mandatory for them to be

They did. Signal and Threema just aren’t interested: https://www.androidpolice.com/signal-threema-nothing-to-do-with-whatsapp-eu/

All the people that reply saying “But it is easy, I did it” fail to realize that their personal circumstances can’t just be applied to everyone else.

I did it too. Most of my contacts were not willing to switch. My colleagues at work stayed in their WhatsApp group, and many of my close friends did too. I essentially cut myself off from most of my social circles and threw myself into social isolation. Not a good time.

I ended up rejoining WhatsApp and concluded that in this instance, my mental health is more valuable than the privacy I gain by not participating in WhatsApp.

Not a fan of clickbait.

Maybe ask the people what they find confusing about Mastodon, and listen.

I’ll give you example. Say I want to sign up , but mastodon.social has currently closed sign-ups. People tell me I can just sign up on any instance, but there’s dozens of them and they all appear to be the same. As someone who’s not familiar with federated services, I don’t know what to base my instance decision on.

How would you help me overcome this choice paralysis?