I just need to convince my relatives to use Signal..
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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sell it to them as an alternative to calls + sms that's free when used over wifi. it already uses phone number as id
That's whatsapp
Yeah it's pretty cool.
way to miss the point
How did he miss the point? If his family is already using WhatsApp selling the idea that it’s free calling + texting over wifi does nothing. They already have that.
He should be trying to sell privacy but unfortunately not enough people care about it.
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that's some glorious schadenfreude
zuck just few hours ago: "people who talk about leaving facebook are just virtue signalling"
Gud gud
It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones and cant be uninstalled and in some phones they dont preinstall the main fb app instead they'd have something like 'facebook manager' or 'something service' which only shows up in app list when you select the "show system apps" option.
I've read stories that fb is basically the internet for countries in Africa. It's their version of America Online, but much worse.
Thats what internet.org was about, fb partnered with major telecoms in many countries with no net neutrality laws to let people use fb for free and a few other websites but except for wikipedia most were pretty much useless.
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It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones
Those are typically carrier-sold phones.
Most unlocked phones purchased directly from the manufacturer (or via a retail store like BestBuy) do not have it pre-installed, and even if it is, its removable.
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Just use UAD to disable the service, easy
no fact checking and a ton of bots being added? Sounds like a fantastic place to spend time. /s
I don't care about Facebook, but Messenger and Marketplace I cannot replace them at all for the moment :-/
Instead of market place I use buy nothing, and offer up, and just give to my local goodwill.
There’s a buy nothing app. It’s a free community run organization for local things that started on Facebook then they made an app and website. It’s all give away stuff but I’ve gotten some really nice & expensive stuff off there and given a lot away too. It’s not as active as their Facebook buy nothing groups, but now maybe that will change. I refuse to use Facebook since I watched my mom turn into a crazy conspiracy trump shit person in 2020.
Ive even made friends with a few people through a few exchanges to them over time on buy nothing, like a nice old lady that I give fruit to from my garden and she makes jam out of it and gives me some back
I'm waiting to see what happens before I make any moves. I've been on Meta apps for over a decade, I don't want to lose the connections if I don't have to.
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Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,
Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?