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>> Stop allowing spoofed numbers. Period. > As someone with a heavy background, it would break a fair bit of the PSTN As it stands, I think quite a few consum
by nordsieck 7y ago
>> Stop allowing spoofed numbers. Period.
> As someone with a heavy background, it would break a fair bit of the PSTN
As it stands, I think quite a few consumers are ready to just walk away from PSTN unless something pretty drastic is done quite soon.
- Aloha 7y agoAnd go to what exactly? There isn't a real alternative out there.
- jjoonathan 7y agoI already see support and customer service offered through WhatsApp or emphasizing chat/email. The switch doesn't have to be frictionless, it just has to be less painful than spam. It doesn't need to happen all at once, either. We're already seeing early adopters walk away from PSTN, so unless they can fix the spam situation before the alternatives hit an inflection point, PSTN is doomed. I'm sure it will live on in many places that aren't concerned with customer satisfaction, though.
- Aloha 7y agoHow does WhatsApp replace 911?
- gorbachev 7y agoWhatsapp
- sdenton4 7y agoWhatsapp comes to mind... [edit: said three people simultaneously.]
- pm7 7y agoLet's give Facebook full control over worlds communication? And allow them to cut people off from communicating with anyone? I don't think it's great idea. We really need federated communicator.
- nordsieck 7y ago> We really need federated communicator. Federation has enormous downsides: since anyone can join the network and send messages, there aren't good ways to police bad actors. The two largest federated communications networks today are email and PSTN. They're both infested with spammers.
- pm7 7y agoYes, there are downsides to federation, but I would argue spam is not inherent to federated communication. There are many ideas to stop spam like proof of work. Main reason for spam in email and PSTN is legacy protocols, which were created long time ago and cannot be significantly improved without breaking compatibility.
- codazoda 7y agoRaises hand. If they still made an iPod like device that ONLY included data, I'd switch to it today. I can get my calls via any of the various online services. As it stands, my phone is in do not disturb mode so that only calls in my address book get through.
- perl4ever 7y agoOne can also use voice recognition to send texts if talking is more appealing as an input method. I previously thought of this as something old people do because they can't type on a phone, but I tried it, and it does provide a more rapid, conversational way of creating text.