Happy #GlobalSwitchDay
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Hidden inside the whatsapp->signal box in tiny faint font. I was wondering why there isn't a big "Discord -> Matrix"
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Switching from WhatsApp to any other messaging service isn't a realistic option for quite many places. I'd be more than willing to switch but of all the people in my contacts (including my entire customer base) there's like 3 people using Signal but every single one of them has WhatsApp. Even the 60+ year olds.
This isn't helping.
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Apart from that, it has to compete against the content monopoly Youtube has on the video platform industry.
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Loops will be open sourced later they say.
Is Loops open source?
It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state. -
Switching from WhatsApp to any other messaging service isn't a realistic option for quite many places. I'd be more than willing to switch but of all the people in my contacts (including my entire customer base) there's like 3 people using Signal but every single one of them has WhatsApp. Even the 60+ year olds.
There is always SMS for these.
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Hidden inside the whatsapp->signal box in tiny faint font. I was wondering why there isn't a big "Discord -> Matrix"
Bad on-boarding
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Yes finding the right instance on peertube is a nightmare — and also the general lack of quality content, or subtitling, which makes it as good as useless for deaf people like me.
Yeah, it is already hard to find reasons to use it for the average user, so people with disabilities (deafness, blindness,intellectual etc.) probably even have reasons to NOT use them (no subtitles, each instance might have different elements or structure that might be a nightmare for screen readers, it might be too complex for some people, etc.).
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That's why Signal's spreading and your not.
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Where is matrix?
Right in the Signal box, it says "Or Matrix/XMPP". It's super tiny for some reason.
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They used to allow their client to be used to send unsecured SMS. Then they stopped. Whatever they thought they were doing, they killed the simplest path to onboarding laypeople they had. I kinda gave up on signal after that.
No ones paying for SMS.
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There is always SMS for these.
Hey, wouldn't it be great if Signal still supported SMS?
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Wouldn't Matrix be a better alternative to Signal, since it doesn't need a number and the main/default instance (matrix.org) is based on the EU? Maybe it has a too difficult learning curve to the average user, though
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There is always SMS for these.
At least WhatsApp is encrypted and let you have propre group chat
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Loops will be open sourced later they say.
Is Loops open source?
It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.That means very little to me. Actions speak louder than words, and it would probably help the development of loops if it was actually open source.
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Personally I see no benefit in it.
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How is it a ghost town if there is a new video someone posts like every 10 minutes?
Are you kidding me?
I thought it was more than that when I called it a ghost town.Imagine if in the entirety of Lemmy, in all channels of all instances, there was a total of 6 posts per hour, and none of them were in channels you wanted to subscribe to.
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At least WhatsApp is encrypted and let you have propre group chat
It's a scam, anti-libre software.
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Wouldn't Matrix be a better alternative to Signal, since it doesn't need a number and the main/default instance (matrix.org) is based on the EU? Maybe it has a too difficult learning curve to the average user, though
Matrix isn't fediverse though. It is Federated but uses its own protocol
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Matrix isn't fediverse though. It is Federated but uses its own protocol
Well, Signal isn't federated either, and doesn't have a fediverse-like technology like Matrix does...
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No one pays for SMS.
