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by em-bee 81 days ago
how? whatsapp, wechat, telegram, even signal, all require a phone to be used.

if i didn't need any of those apps then sure, but unfortunately there is no way around these apps if i want to keep in touch with certain people that are important to me.
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zie 81 days ago
If you need to use these, set the history retention to like no time. That would help a lot. They could still get the contents from the person you are communicating with, but it would require more work on their part. Humans are generally fairly lazy. If you can get the people you communicate iwth to also turn off message retention, that would help. Then they could tell you talked with Tootie, but not what you talked about, at least from the device(s) themselves.
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iamnothere 81 days ago
If you “must” use those then keep a phone off in a drawer and turn it on once a day to keep in touch.

If those people won’t allow you to be offline from time to time and aren’t willing to switch communication methods as an alternative, maybe it’s not a symmetrical relationship.

Or use something like Beeper (works on Linux): https://www.beeper.com/

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