On: Ask HN: How would you convince your friends and family to switch from WhatsApp?

[selfhoster11]

This is the pragmatic approach to the issue. Switching from a ubiquitous communications platform to something that practically nobody uses (relative to WhatsApp's active user numbers) carries a high cost in Weirdness Points[0], and those are only very slowly renewable unless you want to be seen as "the rebel of the family".

[0] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wkuDgmpxwbu2M2k3w/you-have-a...

[bitcharmer → selfhoster11]

> This is the pragmatic approach to the issue

There is nothing pragmatic in helping Facebook dominate our lives entirely.

[cassianoleal → bitcharmer]

As with anything else, pragmatism is heavily dependent on context.

Perhaps for that user, this is the pragmatic approach.

To me, it's the opposite.