Few of my friends decided to leave the Facebook and it's Messenger or Whatsapp apps. But they also decided to move to other proprietary and closed software like Signal.
Please if you make this brave decision, choose wisely. Something decentralized and open like #XMPP or
#Matrix.
These are not apps, these are protocols witch many apps can use. You can than choose app you like. For example on Andorid there is
Conversations or Snikket for xmpp, or Element for Matrix...
@stepan When you're facing non-technical people, where do you point them when they ask "where do I sign up"? I have no reference of public, reliable XMPP servers.
@whynothugo So far nobody asked. For my family members I added accounts on my personal server. For my czech friends I would recommend jabbim.cz as I used to have account there before selfhosting.