They commented for emphasis, they’re agreeing with you. They worded it better so they get more upvotes.

This isn’t reddit, upvotes don’t matter, don’t worry about it

Ok give them your contacts then, but the fact you thought people in a privacy community would say it’s a good idea to give meta access to your contacts is mind boggling.

Write their names and numbers down in a notebook, or a seperate offline notes app on your phone.

Seems a little silly but this is what you get if you insist on using such a terrible app

You wouldn’t be forcing them to care about something they don’t care about. You don’t have to care about privacy to use signal.

I have friends from all walks of life that message me on signal because that’s all I use, most of them don’t care about privacy. To them it’s just another messaging app like WhatsApp, messenger, discord, etc.

But I guess that’s unfortunately not an option in your particular circumstance

The bigger question is why are your so-called friends not respecting your privacy? Anyone who wouldn’t switch to signal for me is not someone I would want to call a friend.

But as the other person said, no it’s not safe to use WhatsApp.

My trick is to do the chores first, then with any leftover time I can do whatever I want guilt free.