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> only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp In many countries, EVERYONE has WhatsApp. In Israel it's how your boss, your work team, your kid's daycare, business
by ariehkovler 4y ago
> only 25-50% of my contacts have WhatsApp
In many countries, EVERYONE has WhatsApp. In Israel it's how your boss, your work team, your kid's daycare, businesses and government offices communicate with you.
- pessimizer 4y agoIt's not ideal to give Facebook that much control over communications.
- LordDragonfang 4y agoThis happened well before Facebook bought them. The solution should have been to not allow the most popular instant messaging platform in the world be bought by a company whose revenue is based on spying on their customers. Unfortunately, the US has had functionally no antitrust action in the past several decades, and what little it has now only exists based on political affiliation.
- Ajedi32 4y agoWhich is awesome from a purely technical perspective. The downside is it means your country's communications infrastructure is owned and controlled by Facebook. If an open protocol version of WhatsApp existed and was universally supported by the default messaging apps on iOS and Android, I'd be all over that.
- rglullis 4y agoToday you are one of the lucky 10000: - https://matrix.org https://matrix.org - https://jabber.org https://jabber.org
- benjaminwootton 4y agoI wonder if this is a US thing as WhatsApp seems to be dominant in Europe and the Middle East, whilst Asia has WeChat and Line.