Instagram, FB Mesenger, SMS...? IDK why you guys don't just use WhatsApp. It's the standard messaging app everywhere in the world (except the US, of course)
EDIT: Wow, lots of people in denial ITT. Look, it's simple: you can hate Meta/Facebook as much as you want (and I do), but you can't deny that WhatsApp is a great product, feature-wise. People who compare it to SMS, Instagram chat, FB messenger or anything else are honestly laughable. The only service that can hold a candle against it is perhaps Telegram
Owned by meta but better than fb and insta messages because of e2ee.
Still wish i could delete it (have it inside a shelter work profile).
Matrix bridging is an option for whatsapp as well as sms, discord, and others, although it does make using these services more private (beyond not having the app installed).
Because this website is an echo chamber that hates big corporations and think the holy grail is to avoid having an online footprint by not using big apps, thus achieving "privacy".
That's not the implication at all and the fact that you even think that just shows how fucking dumb you are. The weeb shit is just the cherry on top lmao
Why does a corporation's opinion of you mean anything? Why do you care if they care? You choose to use their products. Nothing is free, and if you don't like them earning money by showing you ads, don't use their products.
Hurting people for profit? Who are they hurting? It's a free market, and it's your choice to use their products or not. Just stop fucking whining about it all the time.
You're a corporate slave only if you choose to be. This isn't some 1984 dystopia as you try to make it out to be.
Start worrying about real issues. You're a free person and I believe in you :)
Now you're talking about the real issues I mentioned. I'm glad to have awakened your sense of justice, and hope you stop crying about optional internet cookies.
You instantly resort to name-calling and personal insults while calling me juvenile, like a true keyboard warrior, so I think we're done here.
Huh, dude, I am forced to use WhatsApp because it is the number 1 app here where I live, nobody even used SMS, which I actually didn't believe was a thing until another lemming pointed it out lol.
WhatsApp has always been behind other options such as Telegram, for example their WhatsApp web implementation is a huge joke compared to Telegram, or the way it stores the data too.
The way Whatsapp stores data is arguably more secure than Telegram, i.e. not in the cloud but only locally. It sucks if you lose access to your phone and you have not set up backups via iCloud/Google Drive, but it's definitely better in terms of privacy and security.
Instagram, FB Mesenger, SMS...? IDK why you guys don't just use WhatsApp. It's the standard messaging app everywhere in the world (except the US, of course)
EDIT: Wow, lots of people in denial ITT. Look, it's simple: you can hate Meta/Facebook as much as you want (and I do), but you can't deny that WhatsApp is a great product, feature-wise. People who compare it to SMS, Instagram chat, FB messenger or anything else are honestly laughable. The only service that can hold a candle against it is perhaps Telegram
Owned by meta but better than fb and insta messages because of e2ee.
Still wish i could delete it (have it inside a shelter work profile).
Matrix bridging is an option for whatsapp as well as sms, discord, and others, although it does make using these services more private (beyond not having the app installed).
If everyone is already on platform X why would they install app W?
Because this website is an echo chamber that hates big corporations and think the holy grail is to avoid having an online footprint by not using big apps, thus achieving "privacy".
In reality they're a minority of about 100:1.
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That's not the implication at all and the fact that you even think that just shows how fucking dumb you are. The weeb shit is just the cherry on top lmao
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Noted weeb UlyssesT who loves shonen manga and jpop, everybody knows him
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Why does a corporation's opinion of you mean anything? Why do you care if they care? You choose to use their products. Nothing is free, and if you don't like them earning money by showing you ads, don't use their products.
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Yes. But not via Whatsapp, that's all. It's probably the least bad app they own
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Yeah disagreeing with a tiny army of lemmings is bootlicking, makes sense
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You care too much about their regard for your well-being. Of course they don't give a shit. Why would they? It's business.
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Hurting people for profit? Who are they hurting? It's a free market, and it's your choice to use their products or not. Just stop fucking whining about it all the time.
You're a corporate slave only if you choose to be. This isn't some 1984 dystopia as you try to make it out to be.
Start worrying about real issues. You're a free person and I believe in you :)
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Now you're talking about the real issues I mentioned. I'm glad to have awakened your sense of justice, and hope you stop crying about optional internet cookies.
You instantly resort to name-calling and personal insults while calling me juvenile, like a true keyboard warrior, so I think we're done here.
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Oh, the irony..
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That shitty app sucked even before Meta acquired it 🤡
🎶"He's gonna take you back to the past. To use shitty apps that suck ass. He'd rather have-"🎶
You either don't know what you're talking about or you're just commenting in bad faith
Huh, dude, I am forced to use WhatsApp because it is the number 1 app here where I live, nobody even used SMS, which I actually didn't believe was a thing until another lemming pointed it out lol.
WhatsApp has always been behind other options such as Telegram, for example their WhatsApp web implementation is a huge joke compared to Telegram, or the way it stores the data too.
The way Whatsapp stores data is arguably more secure than Telegram, i.e. not in the cloud but only locally. It sucks if you lose access to your phone and you have not set up backups via iCloud/Google Drive, but it's definitely better in terms of privacy and security.
I've never had a Facebook account, I've never had an insta account, but I do use WhatsApp.
Pretty much everyone I know whether old or young uses WhatsApp. When I was travelling, a lot of apartments, hotels and booking services used it too.
Seems to be the one messaging app that cuts across all generations, countries and also the Android/IOS divide.