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Seems global outage: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/whatsapp-is-down-globally.ht... Each time this happens I try to recruit more people to use Signal.
How is Signal any better? US based, centralized, hostile towards alternate clients. Not much better IMO.
In Europe it's used a lot by small businesses etc. it's pretty bad if it's not reliable. The metaverse better be real good, else Meta will be in serious decline.
If it's not decentralized like the internet itself, it will never work. Over and over again we learn that centralization doesn't not work.
Decentralization is not a panacea. You just have to pick your poison.
My team just decided to use whatsapp in case of incidents, lmao
Seems global outage: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/25/whatsapp-is-down-globally.ht... Each time this happens I try to recruit more people to use Signal.
How is Signal any better? US based, centralized, hostile towards alternate clients. Not much better IMO.
Nobody said it was perfect. It's just better.
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I feel like people don't see the timeline. As much as I hate Zuck, his current 3D playground is probably comparable to a 70's video game, and his vision is that the Metaverse future is Skyrim or GTA5, I guess that'd be a Matrix-like virtual world. Imagine a headset with a 360 degree camera, so you can broadcast your surroundings, and someone else can wear their VR headset and be seeing what your camera is seeing. Or…
Sounds terribly stupid to me. This technology needs drastic minimization to become seriously popular.
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How is Signal any better? US based, centralized, hostile towards alternate clients. Not much better IMO.
Much better in that it is open source (so you can audit the e2ee), and it does a lot about metadata. It is actually better at protecting metadata than many decentralized alternatives. Nobody said it was perfect. It's just better.
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Every SMS I send nationally costs me 0.30€ my brother. I am not even going to bother looking what it costs me to text outside the country (even if inside the EU) or to send an MMS.
I haven't had to pay for SMS in the last decade. Even roaming is free in the EU too. Do we live in divergent Europe timelines or something?
Whether you pay for SMS or not depends on your telco. Regarding roaming, let's say that you pay the same you'd pay if you were in your country if you leave the country, but you still pay different rates if you try to call or text someone from another country (whether you are roaming or not)
>Do we live in divergent Europe timelines or something?
Despite what the propaganda may have lead you to think, life in Europe is very different depending on your country.