• Sean Tilley
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    10 months ago

    Why can’t a messaging app just send messages? Why does it have to include a social network?!

    • calm.like.a.bomb
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      10 months ago

      I keep thinking of moving back to XMPP lately. This guy says it better than I would have.

    • pineapple
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      210 months ago

      Why can’t a messaging app just send messages? Why does it have to include a social network?!

      Silicon Valley corporations don’t know the meaning of a stable business model. Infinite growth or bust, only they always seem to find their way around to bust.

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    • @fruitywelsh
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      Honestly I think Fediverse + IPFS + Matrix + Email all rolled into one app and you could have a pretty powerful “everything app” with a huge amount of features, but none of the lock in (so users that don’t use the app aren’t excluded and vice versa).

      • @loki
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        310 months ago

        don’t forget RSS.

        • @fruitywelsh
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          I personally don’t use it, but I know it’s popular. Besides for use in news ticker kind of systems(this was the last I used an RSS, it was super cool though tbh), how do people actually use them?

  • @Kostyeah@lemmy.ca
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    I don’t like it. It’s closed source and we have no idea what Zuck is doing behind the scenes. If it was open source I would trust it a lot more readily, but there’s 0 chance of that ever happening.

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  • @zephyrvs
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    310 months ago

    Meta is going full on Google now: Launch multiple competing products, see what works, kill what doesn’t. Insta is trying to become Twitter, WA is doing whatever shit this is and Facebook is the equivalent of Orkut, only much bigger. 🍿

  • Camus
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    310 months ago

    As much as I dislike Whatsapp (which is a lot), it seems in the article that their intent is to offer an alternative to public Twitter feeds for companies, celebrities and such. Could be a good idea, and the last nail in the coffin for Twitter.