How do you convince people to use privacy respecting technologies

Question

I just submitted talk proposals for FOSDEM. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy foss tools we must use and it covers the "how" to convince people to start using them.If you have encouraged someone to switch to say Signal, or Sessions, or XMPP or some other tool/protocol, please share here.I need as much success stories as possible.----- Anonymity is guaranteed if requested, you can use my Sessions messenger session: 0531634331f5b6be12375bf4229412eed3f2f3543cfe119df37e1b72c883143d4a

Bender · Accepted Answer

Not so much switch, but rather "fall back to" a self hosted instance of uMurmur, IRC, etc... when Discord is down or if the topic is too sensitive for a shared corporate platform. People will stay were their friends are. Having a fall-back solution that gives them more privacy or a way to remain in contact when their primary means are down can be useful at times.How vigilant people are about privacy will vary greatly by generation and by group interests.

bogomil · Answer

Since I can't edit, I want to mention that I will give you the credit while presenting (if you wish of course). Thank you!

firefax · Answer

Do you have a Signal username? I hate dealing with PGP.(That's how I've gotten a lot of folks on Signal: "It's like PGP, but usable." The phone number thing was a hangup for a while but with the usernames feature, that's gone.)