It's a rather good way to purge your friends list "Hey, this client is better, here's why:"

If they don't follow

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if that worked I'd be off whatsapp

I'm not

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

and people would not be on facebook,instagram,snapchat etc etc either

Are you a Pakistani pedophile? Why the hell are you on whatsapp

what are the better alternatives to facebook, instagram and snapchat, though? I thought those have no real competitor in their field

europe is on whatsapp

whatsapp is sms for us

I could turn that question around on you, Matt

Signal, you dumb kike

why the fuck is America still texting using sms?

*I* don't text using SMS

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america is the only reason RCS exists, CMV

if america wasn't so stuck on SMS, the damn protocol would actually be close to dying

like cassettes

@Cole its not really that there is no alternatives its the "everyone is there/ it was first" effect

no matter how much abuse and shitty service they get

they stay cause "mah everyone else"

yeah

tho also given giving alternative smaller plantforms to our friends is on us who know more about technology

but still, _are_ there usable alternatives to facebook, instagram and ok let's kill snapchat who the fuck cares about snapchat

snapchat is darn popular hell people use it to just chat ...

Snapchat and Instagram are both stupid

with 2 lines of text and picture of floor

I use Facebook, Signal, and Discord

thousands of terabytes of floor pictures

I lurk on twitter, but never tweet personally

snapchat owned by the flooring lobby

@Cole for facebook it would be your own blog-plantform where your friends can leave messages and follow you at will without bullshit (also it would replace instagram too at same time))

yes, you're describing how an alternative could work

but does the alternative exist now

but do we suggest or support our friends doing that ? nope cause we dont want to be customer support

@Cole yes activitypub world

don't give me 'nam flashbacks about being CS for bullshit

aka mastodon and friends

"oh hey you know a lot about _stuff_ could you help me with _incredibly unreasonable and/or retarded request_"

and ofc ostatus/fediverse world

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