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You're not stuck. Just leave, and make people talk to you over Signal. If they're not trying to talk to me on Signal or Matrix, I will never see it. This not only got me off of services like Messenger, but also showed who gave enough of a shit about me to go through Signal's simple setup.
And they can see that you don't give enough shit about them to use Messenger.
Two way street.
Two way street indeed, I didn't say all of them followed me or anything like that. I lost contact with many doing this, as expected and intended. But I got much closer to those who did move over. Most of them moved over without me even doing anything because they cared about their own data privacy and realized that it's easier to setup Signal than it is to setup an entire Facebook account anyway.
Man... What happened to just texting your circle of friends?? I get by pretty well doing that. About half are on signal. The other half just text regular, which I'm cool with.