Facebook was blocking Distrowatch

[technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I quit FB years ago because it's such a garbage website. In the meantime IG has just gotten worse and worse and worse... Zuck would be king of enshittification if his websites weren't shit from the start.

[mwa@lemm.ee]

No wonder why WhatsApp isn't on Linux.

[mwa@lemm.ee]

And network service people will keep using IG.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

It really comes down to what platforms they have with government backdoors & data sharing. If they know the government might not be able to access "encrypted" data then they'd rather suck the balls of government than create it anyway. Look at what happened to the Telegram CEO when he created the encryption & told the government to fuck off.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

I have no clue how people trust whatsapp

[mwa@lemm.ee]

i still need it for friends,family and stuff

[smoothliquidation@lemmy.world]

The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

[petter1@lemm.ee]

The mew type of capitalism even worse

[steeznson@lemmy.world]

They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro

[some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org]

"Listen, we might run our entire company on this platform, but that doesn't mean we respect it."

[mwa@lemm.ee]

I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.

[jjlinux@lemmy.ml]

https://media.tenor.com/iWH2JuFYqoUAAAAM/go-on-continue.gif

[ceebee_eh@lemmy.world]

You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

[not_io@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

linux for me not for thee

[jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org]

The paranoia in me wants to think that this an effort to make people forget that there are, in fact, a whole lot of people capable and willing to audit any kind of open source project at any scale. Like a new AI or similar...

[u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

First time I heard of Ferdium. How's your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?

[onihikage@beehaw.org]

Always has been.

[eyedust@sh.itjust.works]

As someone who originally fell for that trick, bless them. I've since learned how to do it right and became a dirty distrohopper.

Either that or some Linux wizard cast the "every time you get your distro perfectly set up and stable you get bored and install another one" curse on me.

[humanperson@sh.itjust.works]

I take the approach of settling into a distro then getting bored and messing with stuff I shouldn't (at least on a daily driver) and reinstalling out of necessity, sometimes changing distros as well.

[samespot@lemmy.world]

I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.

If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy