Happy #GlobalSwitchDay
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Bad on-boarding
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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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Right in the Signal box, it says "Or Matrix/XMPP". It's super tiny for some reason.
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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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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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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.
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No end-to-end encryption
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I like this. I hope it starts conversations. Does anyone know if there are good alternatives to Discord?
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PipePipe is on F-Droid
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It's a scam, anti-libre software.
Yes but it is still better than SMS.
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My trouble as well, I'd love to switch from Whatsapp, but literally every person I talk to and most people in my city/estate/country uses It.
There's a "vendor lock" term, maybe this would be a "social lock"?
