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Eh. If all three of those left the US I would care exactly not at all. There are better alternatives and if FB et al disappeared suddenly it would just create r
by IgorPartola 5y ago
Eh. If all three of those left the US I would care exactly not at all. There are better alternatives and if FB et al disappeared suddenly it would just create room for those services to take hold.
- Macha 5y agoIn the last 5 years, Whatsapp has basically replaced SMS in many EU countries. The equivalent in the US is probably the combined market share of FB Messenger, Whatsapp, iMessage and Signal.
- IgorPartola 5y agoAnd if it went away it would be inconvenient for a couple of weeks as people move to Matrix :)
- libraryatnight 5y agoYeah, I don't think Facebook wants to let people see how quickly they'd adapt and overcome to any of their services going away.
- fmajid 5y agoThere was a forerunner of that last year when there was a massive exodus to Signal when FB changed WhatsApp's privacy policy to force users to allow sharing of data with Facebook. If they shut down, even people who were too apathetic to switch would do so overnight. I hope Signal has a contingency plan for scaling up 10x ready...
- rajishx 5y agoIs the sheer amount of centralised scale (and convenience for users) of whatsapp a good fit for a decentralised system like Matrix?
- tpmx 5y agoWhatsapp is often (not counting groups) easy to replace. Your part of the social graph is literally in your phone's contacts.
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- stjohnswarts 5y agoI agree, maybe I could finally get my friends on telegram, signal, etc