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seriously, who made that jackass a meme?
Chrome is the Internet Explorer of the browsers.
Steven Crowder is the wife abuser of the meme world.
signal and telegram are so much better, don't know why we can't get over that shit app
telegram is awesome but please don't use it if you're looking for total privacy, as (by default) chats are not e2e-encrypted (this is done to improve sync/seamless multi-device chat history).
also they introduced a discord nitro-like subscription like a year ago and started putting all new features behind it....
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Tbh, Signal is really lacking features at this point. That's making it incredibly hard to convince others on using it.
What features?
No Android Tablet version. On iOS you can use your iPad, but can't use a tablet alongside your phone.
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Multiple Chats in one Group ("Communities"), Polls, Group Calls are the ones that come to mind now. I think I had more on my list.. 🤔
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Collective Action Problem is not a joke jim, Billions of people suffer every year
Look, I hate Facebook just as much as the next guy. But I live in The Netherlands and it's the primary way I can contact literally everyone I know. So changing to another messaging app is hard here.
same in India , everyone uses whatsapp even for official communication
Same in Australia. I have Facebook disabled, but I've got messenger to keep in the loop
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Wait until you hear how many people use facebook messenger.
Yeah, that's the real "internet explorer of messaging services". Absolutely sucks to use it (doesn't even.deliver messages to me half the time), but 90% insist on it for chat groupa and such.
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Eh, whatsapp isn't ideal and its owner is one of the big devils of today, but it's the only way to send and receive instant messages among billions of people. I despise it, but it's the only way I can contact people. Needless to say, they don't give a single flying fuck about privacy.
Whatsapp outages make people migrate to Telegram for 1-2 days at most, nobody ends up staying there. Signal? I've only ever met three other people in RL who have even heard of it, and I work in IT.
A more apt comparison would be to languages. Whatsapp is english: clunky, weird, full of nonsense, but it's what "everyone talks". Signal would probably be lojban or esperanto.
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Signal is the best.
The thing it's missing the most is better multi device support and an updated desktop client.
For me, I think Matrix is more complete (specially since it backs-up your chats and media encrypted). The only thing it's lacking (at least Element specific) is encrypted chat search support on mobile.
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I'd say Viber is worse (unbearably slow, has ads), and it's the most used messaging app in Ukraine which just sucks. (basically everyone has it)
people are slowly switching over to Telegram but it still has less then 50% market share...
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I only use it because there's no way I could convince my friends and family to move to anything else.
There's no point in switching to another app if I then literally couldn't communicate with the people I need to through it.
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Whatsapp is still supported
Matrix or Signal only for me. nobody uses Whatsapp here in the states, sms is simply insecure in every way, and telegram has very suspicious roots imo, along with a lack of e2ee and a terrible ui.
signal is the most secure option and matrix is federated making it the most "open" option.
Signal was decent when Musk was promoting it. Then they started throwing in new features without keeping the app functional or thinking about budgeting. So now it's the worst performing chat app, basic functionality like calls are broken, and they want to monetize the app through crypto to cover up their lack of planning.
Matrix is pretty great, but the clients are still pretty bad, also it's confusing as hell to anyone who doesn't understand the idea of federation. I've tried getting people on element, but every single person needed help to create an account and get to chatting, and they've all deleted the app after a while. Also, did matrix fix that encryption bug that was leaking data if someone connected through a different server?
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I'm in the states, I know loads of people using whatsapp. I'm in several group chats.
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WhatsApp seems very conservative with adding new features. I generally feel the features they do decide to add are all pretty useful. Telegram on the other hand doesn't ever seem to slow down with the new features. Many of them seem great, but just as many I would never use. I'm still wondering why Telegram won't introduce end-to-end encryption as a default.
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SMS is IE, Whatsapp is Chrome, and Signal is Firefox. Use Signal/Firefox.
So how do I get my friends to use Signal instead of fucking Facebook messenger?
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I disagree. IE was incredibly proprietary, and SMS is at least an open standard.
IE is...idk Facebook messenger or Imessage or something.
Signal is my jam.
i think we should stop using this specific variation of the meme even though it's the original because crowder is cringe
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How you interpret this comment is like an age test.
Fuck Steven Crowder and any meme based on his bullshit
In some countries like India, people just assume that everyone uses whatsapp. It's gotten to the point where whatsapp has become the definition of messaging (for most people).
I don't see how Whatsapp is outdated to the point where one would compare it to IE, but I'll say whatsapp is more like Google Chrome than IE.
I hope that the DMA gets passed in the EU. It'll (hopefully) break the monopoly worldwide
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