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This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
This is mostly Facebook since it's zero-rated where most Filipino mobile users are prepaid. Young and old, rich and poor Filipinos are glued to their phones like zombies all day browsing Facebook.
That's very condescending towards Filipinos.
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That's very condescending towards Filipinos.
Filipino here, I didn't feel insulted. Its probably true. For a lot of people, the Internet = Facebook. Add to that the fact that Facebook is free due to telco subsidies and a culture that loves social interactions.
Data is cheaper than calls. I don't even bother with call or text plans when I'm in the Phils. It costs a reasonable $8/mo to get 8GB of data if you use the right refillable promos. With that said, internet is so darn slow and unreliable it must be messaging services. It's hard to get real work done from the Phils as a remote software developer. Thank goodness for Tmux and SSH.
I have intermittent connectivity issues, and [mosh]( https://mosh.org/ ) has been super helpful with typing lag, reconnecting.
Interesting thing I saw just today was the 2nd largest (after English) wikipedia was Cebuano with only about 400,000 less article. And Waray-Waray is 11th! Clearly it's not all facebook.
Well, that sounded suspicious, so I looked it up. Apparently, 80-90% of the content on the Cebuano and Waray Wikipedias is generated by Lsjbot[1]. I’m thinking of using a similar approach to bump up the number of Arabic Wikipedia articles, but it seems like cheating to me... [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lsjbot
At least I remember the German wiki being firmly placed in second place a while ago, the numbers for active users of these wikis [0] also reinforces that notion.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias#Detailed_li...
There was a PBS documentary not too long ago about workers in the Phillipines tasked with reviewing all content that is posted to websites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. By the looks of it, they may easily match or exceed the daily usage of any internet-addicted person in any country. What is the total number of people employed in that industry there? Would these types of industries affect the numbers?
Tho it's not actually by PBS, it was originally produced by the cooperation of French and German public broadcasting.
But I'm glad it's finally available somewhere again. The original, publicly funded release was depublished after 3 weeks due to specialties of the public broadcasting agreements. They have to depublish a lot of media after only a few weeks or else it's considered an "unfair disadvantage" for private media companies.
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I have intermittent connectivity issues, and [mosh]( https://mosh.org/ ) has been super helpful with typing lag, reconnecting.
+1 for mosh - life changing on spotty connections. I can tether in the back of a car in rural side streets and still keep a ssh session going strong with no disconnects on mosh. The mosh client is also available for chrome / chrome OS, which as saved me a few times.
Unsurprising Philippines is at top of list. World leader in adoption of tech that enables social interaction. From 2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-textmessages/... Another. Undated. Avg sms per month per subscriber = 600. Or 20 a day. Which seems low, I'm sure I've seen figures alot higher than this. https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-send-a-text-to-the...
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I visited the Philippines recently, and was shocked at how non-neutral it was. ISPs have promotions like "free half an hour of YouTube per day". It is like the nightmare scenario that we in the rest of the world were warned about. Worse, someone told me that in 2012, internet service was way better, but then they realized they could just throttle everyone down and jack the prices up. And I also had to have a Globe an…
You're right, but it's not about throttling, it's about subsidies. Regardless, data is about a dollar a gig, which is among the cheapest in the world. The fact is, folks don't want to or more likely, can't afford it, so the subsidized plans are more popular.