If you’re here, there’s still hope for the internet
Don’t let it fall
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2·5 days agoIt’s insecure, can only handle small files, no features like read receipts or reactions. I can go on.
6·5 days agoJust a reminder that it is in the interest of the ruling establishment in both countries to keep their citizens mad at each other
yeah… it should
It’s honestly terrifying how much of a grip whatsapp has. People like to make fun of the US for being stuck on sms and imessage, but at least we’re not beholden to Zucc for our main communication
Well, my experience is the with the US market, it may be worse here idk, but here you go https://www.statista.com/chart/34197/share-of-us-respondents-use-email-providers/
Also I forgot apple
How much power is in the hands of the people and not a few companies?
That’s exactly what I’m talking about though. Google, microsoft, and kinda yahoo basically control the entire market. A few providers like fastmail fight over fractions of percent. Email today feel much worse than lemmy
2·7 days agoDiscord was just an example, I’m not attached to it. It could be signal or WhatsApp or matrix or whatever
I don’t know if this is a joke, but I do have a blog that I’ve been very demotivated to post on for similar reasons
They’re invite only places. Though discord does have public servers too now I think, generally you can’t just access them through the open web.
The fact that email is at the top here is clear evidence this is not a good metric dude. Email is not decentralized these days
781·10 days agoI know a lot of people who bought teslas before musk became a full blown oligarch and feel uncomfortable about it
Yeah we do, they list it in privacy policies. Many of these they can’t really collect even if they wanted to
Note this is if you use their apps. Not the api. Not through another app.
1·15 days agoYou might just be older. A number of keyboards do actually use that data but in the autocorrection phase. I think most people would hate it if the key sizes kept changing
On the other hand we get to look at Maxwell
Damn that’s rough on Other Tim
5·16 days agoI have a strong desire to record myself reading everything in this thread
3·16 days agoConsidering the upvotes, you guys seem to have filled in just fine
post is too [good] unfortunately
It’s better, but in practice seems to have ended up entirely controlled by Google