All these (ad)ons always take priority over performance.

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    1 year ago

    During the peak of Whatsapp Controversy, I had 50 out 450+ contacts on Signal. Now it is just 5 people.

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        1 year ago

        This is US defaultism. People doesn’t care about sms capabilities outside the US. The US isn’t a huge market for Signal.

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    1 year ago

    pls whatsapp stop copying from fucking telegram there should be a law to make it not possible this is killing competition

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    1 year ago

    Great, I can’t wait for Whatsapp to be the only way to reach customer support and make payments. I always felt the confused look of people when I tell them I don’t have Whatsapp wasn’t enough.

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      1 year ago

      always felt the confused look of people when I tell them I don’t have Whatsapp wasn’t enough.

      the worst part is that most people cannot fathom that you don’t have Whatsapp and you want to continue not having. The confused look is because their way of thinking is “ok you don’t have, so what, open an account, it’s taking 10 seconds”.

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      1 year ago

      Sure, I use Signal with some. But I will have to use WhatsApp to interact with most people. They won’t switch just because I tell them to.

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        1 year ago

        Luckily they don’t have to switch. Your good friends from the European union have a solution for you (And the latest beta for whatsapp features the skeleton for their implementation of that standard)

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      1 year ago

      lol. "Don’t use the messaging apps used by all your friends and family. Use another app so you cant contact them. "

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        Man, messaging is a nightmare. I use signal with a few of my closest contacts, whatsapp with most other people, sms as a fallback and for work I have to occasionally use Teams and fucking Viber (ugh). At least I managed to liberate myself from the clutches of Slack.

        If only there was some standard way to get these apps to talk to each other so everybody could use what they want. Oh wait, there was, it was called XMPP, it worked perfectly and big tech fucking killed it and replaced it with the irritating clusterfuck that is the current status quo.

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          1 year ago

          Matrix with Bridges does help a lot, though. Alternatively Beeper. (Which is Matrix with Bridges)

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    1 year ago

    This is far more likely to become the Do Everything App for the Western World than X/Twitter is.

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      1 year ago

      I’m really interested how this is going to play out. I’m seeing this from a European perspective - Meta has show many times, that they shit on the GDPR. And while it seemed, that nothing really happened so far, that authorities are getting traction. Fines are racking up. The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act are going to introduce more regulations, and I think that the future might hold even more surprises for Meta, especially if they succeed in build all these new things into WhatsApp.