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While I love all these open source, privacy centered efforts, the fragmentation across all these alternatives isn't helping with the already horrible network ef
by zuhayeer 6y ago
While I love all these open source, privacy centered efforts, the fragmentation across all these alternatives isn't helping with the already horrible network effects amongst friends.
Barely any of my friends use these other apps making all of them pretty useless. Seems like a lot of apps will enjoy really high initial install numbers, but gravity may just pull everyone straight back to WhatsApp.
- Bancakes 6y agoI have yet to find any tangible difference b/w Wire, Element, Threema, and Jami. And whatever FSF-approved apps people use, too.
- pwdisswordfish0 6y agotbh, I love the fragmentation. I have only one contact in Threema so for all intents and purposes that app icon is her. On most other platforms I also chat disproportionately with a single person and I find it somewhat annoying when someone else contacts me on them, because I expect the Facebook Messenger notification to be that person, the Threema notification to be another and the Instagram notification to be yet another. The biggest wildcard is Whatsapp – could be work, could be my mom.
- ngcc_hk 6y agolike Microsoft browser we can use that to launch others always. Just use it to install chrome.