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My friend group switched to Signal en masse. YMMV.
by timmg 5y ago
My friend group switched to Signal en masse. YMMV.
- pmlnr 5y agoYay, another platform without the possibility to become decentralized, with a leader who basically opposes standards based development, great step forwards.
- ummonk 5y agoMonolithic platforms are significantly more feature-full and user-friendly than standards based development, and thus are the ones that actually experience significant adoption. This is just a fundamental reality.
- pmlnr 5y ago> more feature-full and user-friendly than standards based development That is shortsighted. Email, which is standards based, has been around for 50 years. I have a strong sense that Signal won't be around in 2064.
- ummonk 5y agoMost people use Gmail. Email is a standards based legacy technology that has inertia, like fax machines; it doesn't mean people prefer standards based technologies.
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- busymom0 5y agoSame here. All my frequent messaging friends are on signal now. Oy an infrequent group chat is on messenger.
- redwood 5y agoHard with wider friend network, family, even work colleagues
- kshacker 5y agoWe had a campaign to switch to signal, it fizzled out pretty quickly. I am part of 6 active groups from school to work days, and 1 of them split and exists on both WhatsApp and Signal - signal for sports talk, WhatsApp for everything else, but every other group that tried, moved back. WhatsApp has too much "moat".