Comment on Nepal bans social media(Facebook, X, Reddit, Mastodon, Discord, Signal, YouTube and more) for failing to register with the government; Only 7 to be open(Viber, TikTok, Telegram and more)

• Zak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s a silly feature for a messaging app, but it has no impact on me if I ignore the feature.

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  • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It does say something about the mindset of the vendor, which is a legit reason to decide not to use an app. From what I can tell, Teslas are pretty good cars despite some issues here and there. But Elon’s antics are enough to make me decide not to buy one.

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    • Zak@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m not sure adding a questionable social feature to a messaging app is reasonably comparable to the very long list of insane and/or evil shit Musk has done.

      Like any messaging system, Signal’s utility is proportional to its userbase. If stories get more people to use it without making it worse for people who don’t care, then they’re a good idea even if I think everything else about the concept is bad.

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      • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        A bar (place where you drink) is another type of a messaging system. Yu can meet people in them and have conversations there. That doesn’t mean it’s best to crowd everyone into one giant bar claiming that increases utility, compared with letting people freely open their own bars. Especially if the avowed purpose of the bar is enabling private conversations (facilitating giving you and your friend Bob a private place to talk, as opposed to creating a meeting place for strangers).

        I can understand visiting a giant bar if I want to mingle with randos in public. If I want to talk privately with my friend, I want a small, private bar, preferably one whose existence is not known to anyone outside of my friend group. If the giant bar operator is going out of his way to prevent me from doing that, I have to say he is up to something not so good.

        Sorry about the strained analogy but at least it didn’t mentioned cars. Well, until just now.

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    • egrets@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Use whatever software you want, more power to you, but I’m not totally convinced that “chaired by a fascist transphobic multibillionaire oligarch who actively subverts democracy at every opportunity” and “introduced a feature I don’t want to use into my free secure messaging app” are even close to equivocal?

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      • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I’m bothered mostly by the default Signal app’s inability to use a self-hosted server instead of signal.com’s own server, and have been dubious about Signal because of that. The social media feature is something I hadn’t heard of til just now. It reinforces my skepticism but it’s just another issue. I’d be more interested in Signal if I could use my own server without having to get people to install modified clients.

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  • AppearanceBoring9229@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I justo use that for sharing memes with whoever sees it.

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• big_slap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  eh, just dont use it. beats a lot of other alternatives at the moment

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• Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s completely removable with one setting. No nags or anti-patterns or design holes.
  If it stops a few from sticking with whatsapp because signal lacks that “feature”, I’d say it’s worth it.

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• RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You can remove ot from your view and then you forget it is even a thing

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