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Post by inigyou »

account42 wrote: post #288
inigyou wrote: post #194

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Or you sue them and (if they did something wrong) they're SOL. But you won't. And they know you won't. Not even small claims.

...because the overhead of even small claims is bigger than what you can possibly recover in most regular disputes. There needs to be something like a class action for small claims - government regulators where you can submit complaints with evidence to and if enough people complain about a company the government has to look into it.

Isn't small claims designed for, well, small claims and therefore low overhead? That's why you can't bring a lawyer. Which is super annoying for a company, because a company has no physical embodiment and has to send a lawyer or other representative just by virtue of being a company.

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Post by fuzzfactor »

seebeegeebee wrote: post #190
fuzzfactor wrote: post #166

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Bless his heart, babies don't know any better.

Yes, burn the witch!!! How dare someone disagree with our MSM opinions!

That's quite an MSM opinion you've got there.

I would say don't burn anything, especially not an innocent neophyte without an ounce of maturity who doesn't know right from wrong yet.

I'm certainly not going to downvote them either, and surely not silently, that would be kind of chickenshit. Plus it's like their opinion, man.

OTOH who needs a "witch hunt" when it's self-described.

When you think about it lots of people around here don't even need to hunt for that missing sock any more ;)

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Post by inigyou »

pjc50 wrote: post #282
inigyou wrote: post #193

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So HTTP and IP

I think if you think that technologies which were around for decades before social media took off are equivalent to social media, then it's actually on you for missing what the difference is. See HN classics of "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame" and "you can replicate dropbox with webdav"; at some point you have to stop thinking that it's everyone else who is wrong and work out what they want which you're m…

Yeah but you have to think about what that convenience actually is. You can't just say "twitter is convenient". Visiting someone's website is actually much easier than visiting their Twitter, so what happened?

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Post by inigyou »

hparadiz wrote: post #249
inigyou wrote: post #188

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AI would classify anything disagreeing with the government as spam. For example right now it would classify anything opposing Israel as spam.

Are you sure that's not just people getting fed up with you and hitting the mute button? I just mute those people.

That trains the AI

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Post by inigyou »

pjc50 wrote: post #278
inigyou wrote: post #185

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There is a carrier neutral WhatsApp, called SMS.

Whatsapp etc. only took off because SMS is so limited, and the mobile companies are so profit-focused they can't make a decent competitor. (how is whatsapp paid for again?)

It's not all about profit as European SMS is now free. It is however about decentralisation stifling feature development - a trap we run into again and again, from email to IRC to SMS to Fediverse/ATProto.

WhatsApp is one company so if they want to enable sending images they can just do it, and they don't have to coordinate with anyone else. MMS was a failure because you couldn't be sure if your recipient would actually get it, or if your carrier would actually let you send it.

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Post by inigyou »

KPGv2 wrote: post #311
vincnetas wrote: post #270

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Yes, no, try to have group chat with SMS, and tell me how that went...

RTS is the SMS replacement and is quite old. And as evidence it works, I direct your attention to the ubiquitous iMessage, which only "couldn't" interop with Android because Apple was trying the vendor lock-in approach and actively enshittifying its own users' experience and blaming it on Android users.

Which it also had to do because SMS doesn't have half its features, like encryption and sending images.

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Post by alex1138 »

inemesitaffia wrote: post #302
alex1138 wrote: post #221

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Which is one of the many many reasons Zuckerberg needs to be investigated the hell out of for every single thing he does I grant you 2014 is 12 years ago now and you could plausibly argue it was their doing to grow network effects but I'm pretty sure WA had that infrastructure already in place - Acton, Koum et al already did the ground work to get carriers to... whatever it is Zuckerberg stole it like he steals every…

People insisted then that paying tens of Instagram for WhatsApp was too much.

I have no idea. The point is they took competition out back, and shot it

Whether that's 'too much' depends on your view of it

I'm tired of people calling them 'savvy acquisitions'. Not when Zuck's on record as saying 'Instagram can hurt us'

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