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Commercial "social" media and chat apps are allowed to do whatever they want without any reason or process. If people had any sense, they would use subscriber-f
by cvccvroomvroom 4y ago
Commercial "social" media and chat apps are allowed to do whatever they want without any reason or process. If people had any sense, they would use subscriber-funded, employee co-op, nonprofit services. "Free" commercial apps aren't free or dependable.
- tempestn 4y agoThe problem in this case is network effects. I prefer not to use whatsapp, but if I want to chat with people who are on whatsapp, that's what I need to use.
- zaik 4y agoThat's why the XMPP standard was invented: Interoperability even if you use a different IM provider. Unfortunately almost no one seems to care about standards compliance when choosing their messaging app.
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoYeap. Gtalk did XMPP for a while until it became another walled garden.
- cvccvroomvroom 4y agoThat's ceding to a popularity catch-22 from a view of learned helplessness, assuming an individual has no power, which is untrue. Network effects bring all sorts of new apps to the fore, one user at a time. Good and better things are difficult and take time. It's people who shrug and reinforce the hegemony who are at fault.