[lxgr]

Ah, right, I forgot that nobody in the US uses Instagram or Facebook (which are both not end-to-end encrypted, like SMS and RCS, and unlike WhatsApp).

[cnasc]

I don’t use Facebook, and I’m not required to use Facebook or anything adjacent to it when I chat with my friends who do

[lxgr]

Maybe you don't, and I respect that, but I wanted to push back on GP seemingly responding on behalf of all Americans, somehow ("we prefer to keep our messages out of the hands of Facebook" is evidently not true).