‘Open Source And Ethical’ TikTok, WhatsApp And Instagram Alternatives Could Transform Social Media
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madjo@feddit.nlreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
The normies are trying
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solrize@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
They don't have email? It's like the 1980s when only nerds had email.
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ulrich@feddit.orgreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Sorry, did you have a question?
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fake4000@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
I know. But most of these engineers are on the job and on the road 99 percent of the time. And a quick WhatsApp message is all they want.
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.dereplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
I hopt that'll succeed. And those are the platforms in demand. While Mastodon is losing users, and we've been stagnating for quite some time already... Pixelfed is currently going off the charts. We'll have to see whare this leads to and if it's going to last.
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grammarpolice@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
WhatsApp
Signal
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grammarpolice@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Good luck getting anyone to download any of those
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ch00f@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
e…e-mail?
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macroplastic@sh.itjust.worksreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Signal? Isn't that the app for drugs? /s
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jubilantjaguar@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
While Masturdon was ripe for the picking
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jubilantjaguar@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Good point. Theoretically surmountable because Wikipedia.
But donors are going to have to be convinced that social media is a social good.
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takeda@lemm.eereplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
That's my initial thought, but what do we know about who owns it?
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grammarpolice@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
It's owned by Brian Acton. The original founder of WhatsApp before it was sold to Meta. I'm yet to hear of controversial stories about him. Unless him being a billionaire irks you, i think it's fine.
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jubilantjaguar@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Yeah but you see the point? They offer us one option. We offer them ten.
"You don't have any of them installed? Well, I don't have Whatsapp installed. So one of us is going to have to go out of our way. Why should you assume that's for me to do, just because everyone else including you behaved like an unthinking herd of sheep?" That's what I feel like saying, and occasionally do actually say.
It's a difficult conundrum. Speaking personally, but at this point resisting the Whatsapp fascism has become stubborn article of faith for me. I won't do it.
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jubilantjaguar@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
It’s owned by Brian Acton
No, he is a founder and a donor. It's owned by the Signal Foundation, which is a classic non-profit that seeks funding from lots of sources.
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catloaf@lemm.eereplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Yeah... But to them, why should they deal with one difficult customer when they have a dozen more that are easier to work with?
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jubilantjaguar@lemmy.worldreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
My point was about the social scenario, which is a genuine puzzle because most people want to have friends. I've lost some over this.
For the business context (this was the subject, true), I find that's much easier: "F*** off and send an email." Impossible? Well then that's one less customer for you. I have lots of experience of doing exactly this. Almost always the email suddenly becomes possible after all.
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banana@sh.itjust.worksreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
The other founder is Moxie Marlinspike who is a security researcher
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ulrich@feddit.orgreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
I would never tell anyone to email me...
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onlinepersona@programming.devreplied to Guest 30 days ago last edited by
Impressive that a site like Forbes is writing about the Fediverse. A small step to helping it into the mainstream.
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