Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

[filthmontane@lemmy.world]

Good point. I've never seen an ad on it and I've been using it for at least a week. There's sponsored content, but you'd have to go looking for it. Like if I wanted to watch some videos about Nike shoes, I'd see sponsored videos and such. But no actual ads.

[xapr@lemmy.sdf.org]

Unfortunately, I don't know. I read that mobile apps for it are few and far between? There may only be one or no app for Friendica on each platform. I think I also read that there are a couple of apps in beta at the moment?

[xapr@lemmy.sdf.org]

I agree that the Facebook format is fine. The real problem with them is the algorithms. Oh, and all the data harvesting, advertising, and now bots pretending to be real people? I guess everything else about Facebook is terrible except the format!

[breadcat@sh.itjust.works]

sorta, the old clients still have bad cryptography and the new client isn't fully featured yet

[nyamlae@lemmy.world]

you can't join Signal there. I don't know whether it's due to sanctions or if the government is blocking 2FA SMS messages. In either case, it is impossible to join without a phone number confirmation.

What do you mean? You need a phone number to join Signal in any country.

[missandry351@lemmings.world]

I need to use email to work

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

Like I said, I don’t know the inner workings of Matrix. But according to the second guy that isn’t you, Matrix has a new tech stack that is zero trust. Now, there are many ways in which that can be true and I don’t know if what Matrix has right now can indeed be considered dissident-level privacy.

It’s good enough for my threat level (I basically just use it for software support). If I were planning to overthrow a regime, I’d likely go with SimpleX or some other privacy-first messengers.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

When people say the fediverse is too confusing I think most of the time in the specific it is good and vital feedback (please let us continue to dismantle the ways in which we participate in systems of anti-accessibility without sometimes even being aware) but sometimes I think the viewpoint might have everything backwards in the beginning assumption that this hurdle, fundamentally an issue of education, has any easy, universal, infinitely scalable genuine solution like corporate social networks attempt to convince us exists and is just around the corner.

Why are we assuming any solution that can be "growth hacked" like a factorio factory is capable of preserving the values that motivated communities to adopt those tools in the first place?

Like, maybe maybe-not....

[drathvedro@lemm.ee]

And that's the problem. The whole privacy thing goes out the window because it relies on an insecure and state-controlled method for authentication. What's the use of it if it can be killed off in any country at a whim of its, or USA's government?

[meldrik@lemmy.wtf]

Take a look at the 2 pinned posts in this community: https://lemmy.wtf/c/peertube

[ultragigagigantic@lemmy.ml]

[xapr@lemmy.sdf.org]

You have really good insights about this, and it's a great question. I wish it weren't buried 5 levels deep in this thread, where few people may see it. Maybe you could write it up as a top level post on the Fediverse community?

[solarpunker@slrpnk.net]

What you need is not always what the world need.

[8fingerlouie@lemmy.world]

In this specific case, like my kids soccer or swimming team, I would need to convince 15 childrens parents, so 30 people (or more) to switch.

On top of that, the soccer club has more teams, and since soccer practice is scheduled by the club, the club itself would need to switch their ways of working, and that’s where it gets tough.

Facebook, for better or for worse, offers a free platform with a built in blog, instant messenger, calendar, reminders, and an easy way to send messages to all relevant people.

Signal only solves one or two of those problems, meaning they would have to find alternatives for the rest, and I for one don’t miss the time when everybody used some variant of a shared calendar (ie Google calendar) to schedule, and you’d be subscribe to 10+ calendars with notifications going off left and right.