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Even if this is true (source?) I don't believe it's comparable. Signal (I know less about Telegram) has no news feed, and doesn't make money from advertisers.
by cowpig 5y ago
Even if this is true (source?) I don't believe it's comparable.
Signal (I know less about Telegram) has no news feed, and doesn't make money from advertisers. It has neither the inherent conflicts of interest nor the history of acting in bad faith that Facebook does.
Facebook makes a lot of decisions about what information to show people, which influences them. At their scale, that's a lot of power, which means they have a lot of responsibility.
- likpok 5y agoWhatsApp doesn't have a news feed or advertising either, and people don't exactly seem happy with it. While there are some issues from FB (the TOS scandal), the biggest issues are inherent to the platform (fake news in IIRC brazil, the genocide in myanmar).
- telcodud 5y agoWhatsApp uses the same growth hacks that Facebook (and Instagram) used to grow at all costs.
- Infinitesimus 5y agoWhat are those? It is a chat app that got popular by providing free texting in a world where SMS costs were high and working across a wide set of phones.