I am working on this with mine, but even Signal is too weaksauce in my book. Ownerless (and ideally decentralized) p2p chat is what I am after. If everyone in my group used Android then it'd be Briar or Cwtch hands down for primary text/picture msg and SimpleX or Session or Jami as voice/video call and backup. Because there's an iphone upsetting everything that scratches Briar and Cwtch, so it's SimpleX reinforced with Orbot on my group's menu currently and it seems to work reliably. Session has terrible notification delays when in the background, they use the [IMO] boneheaded send-on-select abstraction within the selection gallery when attaching an image on their Android app (oh and your unsent typed text is wiped). Very unprofessional, needs a bottom-up redesign for its interface. Really has that everyone quit feel to it.
Never signal because signal is bad on requiring too much metadata (your number). It was Session for a while but since SimpleX can be hardened with Orbot (or Tor on PC) and it was way more notifications-reliable, we switched. I would much prefer Briar or even Cwtch but an iphone in the group ruins that party.
Otherwise to answer your question it is a bit of a game. I also like to remind them how, being creeped out by Aunt Matilda putting microphones and keyloggers all over, at least Aunt Matilda [most likely] has better interests for you at heart. GOOG/AAPL/MSFT have no such kinship connection yet they are surveilling in precisely the same ways. That was a decade ago, now add in the Universal Function Approximators! *Demo stable-diffusion.* *Demo lm-studio.* *Present to them a performance of Orwell's 1984.* *Show them a few documentaries on social control.* "See? Now would you like to try it?"
