lol cope and be normal I guess? I understand insta isn’t great with privacy but it’s a group chat for your room mates. Make a burner account instead of forcing all of them to download some app they’ve never heard of for one group chat with people they are forced to be acquaintances with.
They’re likely all thinking you’re the odd man out because you’re making a fuss over a group chat.
You don't have any context. I never made a fuss about it I simply suggested that we make a gc on Signal because it's like iMessage for iOS and Android (cross compatible), but someone else suggested we can just create an old fashioned SMS group chat because they tend to miss notifications on other apps which is understandable and what we ended up doing. But the way this guy responded is a bit douchy for someone who does not know any of us and this is the second message we are ever receiving from him.
I have been in these kind of conversation a lot with my friends who work in tech. Even in tech circles, people wills till fall back to 'unsafe' solutions due to convenient an network effect. It sucks that we don't have a universal protocal for instant messaging that work for all platforms and is secured (f**k Apple for that). At this point I agree that it's just easier to just move on and use a normie chat app with burner accounts (which is increasingly harder to make nowadays)
And a decade ago, Google itself sabotaged XMPP in their version of embrace, extend, and extinguish: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging
lol cope and be normal I guess? I understand insta isn’t great with privacy but it’s a group chat for your room mates. Make a burner account instead of forcing all of them to download some app they’ve never heard of for one group chat with people they are forced to be acquaintances with.
They’re likely all thinking you’re the odd man out because you’re making a fuss over a group chat.
You don't have any context. I never made a fuss about it I simply suggested that we make a gc on Signal because it's like iMessage for iOS and Android (cross compatible), but someone else suggested we can just create an old fashioned SMS group chat because they tend to miss notifications on other apps which is understandable and what we ended up doing. But the way this guy responded is a bit douchy for someone who does not know any of us and this is the second message we are ever receiving from him.
More info needed here. I don't see OP "making a fuss" but putting down someone's suggestion so bluntly is kind of rude.
I have been in these kind of conversation a lot with my friends who work in tech. Even in tech circles, people wills till fall back to 'unsafe' solutions due to convenient an network effect. It sucks that we don't have a universal protocal for instant messaging that work for all platforms and is secured (f**k Apple for that). At this point I agree that it's just easier to just move on and use a normie chat app with burner accounts (which is increasingly harder to make nowadays)
And a decade ago, Google itself sabotaged XMPP in their version of embrace, extend, and extinguish: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging