I have not read the news in a really long time just cause paywalls are annoying as frick.

I mean for them to explain why they think signal sucks

I think you can try to create the group with end to end encryption

Signal is just a messaging app, and worst of all to a ton of people you have to share your phone number, something that is kinda intimate and you might only share it among the closer people in your friend group, even when signal launches usernames unless it builds something around signal it’s just another annoying messaging app to keep track of.

as a gen zer myself I would follow it up with WHY? give me a reason WHY. I don’t really see a difference between instagram groups and signal groups. I think what it is for most people is some lame app they will download for only that specific purpose. The only reason why iMessage is popular is it’s the default. If the EU passed a regulation to force Apple to have a default messager that only supported SMS, and iMessage to be a separate appstore app, or even just an extension for the messages app. it would die within a year. Meta groups are only popular cause they are tired to 2 of the biggest social platform being facebook and instagram.

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Not to mention none of this will actually protect children. When I was 14 I told an adult online about my life and they helped me make it through some rougher periods until I got to 18. I know the internet is highly imperfect but I think gate keeping kids out of it will just lead to more underground abuse and abuse that they don’t find was abuse until they are adults.

I love how this “sticking it to big tech” is also funded by big tech. The general goal of someone like Facebook with this legislation is pass a bunch of rules that only large companies like them can comply with, and watch mastodon instances and other attempts to detrown them end in FBI raids and more regulations.

Ugh I always knew the college board was sketchy, this is a whole different level of exploitation.

I use it, and never really had issues with it. It was pretty reliable.

I don’t really trust non Foss messaging services, I rather manually bridge everything into matrix

I am not like suggesting you bring an iPad, but I am suggesting you bring your own device to class whatever that might be.

Yeah the project has continued without him, And yeah running Google Apps is likely less private but considering I use proprietary apps like discord regularly I feel like Google and people are getting more and more of my data anyway.

Hmmm not sure if its any different now but I used to bring my own iPad mini and do my work on that. I’m sure its different now.

I feel like we need a popular fork to ship by default on Linux distros, and other stuff. And this fork need a heavy skin. We need to make it better in every single way.

Honestly I hate free speech absolutism on my feed. My argument honestly is decentralization is free speech to the high level, but I also have the free will to block you or join an instance that blocks you

I feel like there isn’t a real way to fix this, since lemmy isn’t a single service, like I can choose any image host I want. The only way I could think of would be to have your instance download the images but that’s currently not even support on the mastodon alike platforms even. The only thing you can do on Mastodon that I’m aware of is cache the images on your own server which could get costly

Ugh “free speech” IE you can debate random trans people just trying to live their lives. Twitter always had some level of free speech. Neat though that anonymous login kinda works!

Oh cool!

Mine seems to intergreat, has the KDE title bar and such, rather than Firefox which is just the GNOME ones