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You have to do the open source phone first, and help convince others, before the banks and snapchats will support you, not the other way around. It's normally a
by fartcannon 5y ago
You have to do the open source phone first, and help convince others, before the banks and snapchats will support you, not the other way around. It's normally a small sacrifice, but the payoff is fundamental to a free future.
- josephcsible 5y agoYou make it sound like the banks and Snapchat would have to do work for them to support me, when the opposite is true. The community already has compatibility layers that work for most apps, but those companies go out of their way to do extra work to make sure their apps don't work in them.
- fartcannon 5y agoYeah they're shitty. That's why maybe you shouldn't financially support ecosystems that you don't like just to use apps that are actively hostile to you. You don't need those things.
- josephcsible 5y agoThe problem with not using Snapchat is the network effect: you miss out on socialization when you're the only one in your friend group that isn't on it. The problem with not using those banks is that I don't think there's any banks that aren't hostile like that, and keeping all of your money under a mattress is a worse choice than compromising on this principle.
- fartcannon 5y agoThis is HN so I'll be slaughtered for this reply, but someone definitely tried to fix the banks issue a little over a decade ago. But yeah, fair enough! I choose to just not chat to those people, but I totally get that it's not that easy for some.
- jamesmishra 5y agoYou choose not to chat with your friend group?
- fartcannon 5y agoThe goofs trying to communicate via Snapchat, yeah.