That said volleyball to me, but maybe there's a size difference?

Anyways the true sport of champions is sepak tekraw. Give me the damn sepak tekraw ball, dude

changing to Signal would isolate you from most people and businesses.

Sounds great - if I wasn't already using Signal, that just might persuade me 😁

The only people that believe I'm worth contacting have already switched to Signal and the ones that refused to switch lost contact with me. Their loss I guess.

So what? Don't support fascism.

Same thing with Twitter and mastodon I guess.

Must be more popular in your country, in Canada I don't know a single person on whatsapp

Damn shame

So?

Well Signal would be pretty much the same as WhatsApp, it sends over internet not mms or sms

Your telecoms are ripping you off. SMS messages 'ride' on the normal connection mechanism to cell phone towers. If your phone connects to a cell phone tower, it already has the space and data to attach an sms and requires nothing else. SMS are 'free' from the infrastructure point of view.

Maybe lobby your representatives to make charging for them illegal and you'll get proper messaging back without selling off your data.

iMessage because if a chat suddenly goes green and you didn't notice, it costs dozens of euro

There’s a setting in iOS to disable that from happening btw

"dumbfucks"
-Markie Zuc

It's a simple concept.

You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

The other only has Whatsapp.

They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it's just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

signal is extremely popular across europe

But you get to choose what app you use. And if they continue to support fascism you have to decide if you want those kind of friends.

the problem arrives when you try to switch your friends over... :(

Huh? What would be the bigger evil?

And re: network effect, I just told the people I wanted to chat with that I am going to use Signal and then uninstalled. Most followed, some didn't. That's just life, I guess.

It allows one to play 45 rpm records, which have a big hole in the middle, on the turntable most people had at home which was designed for 33 ⅓ rpm records, which have a small hole. The shape forms a gentle spring to create tension inside the 45.

The shape allows the tabs to push in slightly and snap into the 7”. I’ve heard them called ‘spiders’ :)

I switched off an my parents, grandparents and siblings all switched to signal with me.
I'm not saying everyone can or will, but it may be easier that we think.

I live in one of those places. It does make it hard, but someone has to decide not to fund meta, so I put my foot down and won't do it. It isn't easy, but I manage.

3 billion sources of revenue for meta, harvesting all that data, training AI, selling ads!

So they can create data centers, push AI, influence politics, and in general have one person live a billionairs lifestyle.

I think you just gave me 3 billion reasons NOT to use it. Are you going to continue to fund those things?

be the change

Okay, come back to us when you figure out how to convince my entire family to download Signal or Telegram (which are seen as shady anyway) just because one person they know wants them to.

It's not realistic.

Try as I might, I can’t imagine it that way. Got an illustration?

The RGB one with the "snakes" on it?

Kind of weird how the ladies ball is bigger. We have smaller hands. Ours should be smaller.

Man, I bet you can't tell me what tf to do boy. Nor can I tell you to investigate. No one fucking investigates. I do one stretch of comments at a time and most people are so chuckle happy they don't even know God's a unified field of consciousness that arose from the supersymmetry of the ever-present, eternal emptiness to then fold in and on Itself across eleven dimensions to form a topological matrix that acts as a monadic nodal communication system, let alone I teach this in my educational (f)art project, but retard over here is "fully convinced," so why don't I mention how much I love feet and leave it at that.