Generally these kind of websites turn into companies that take hush money to delete bad reviews, eg glassdoor/yelp

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There is also no standard way of buying a DRM free epub for personal use so I’m fine downloading them from Anna too :)

If you can’t party at a work party then don’t call it a party

How is that even legal, I thought there were data export laws in the eu

You could try https://delta.chat/ instead of WhatsApp

Most importantly, the pipeline from finding a question on SO that you also have, to answering that question after doing some more research is now completely derailed because if you ask an AI a question and it doesn’t have a good answer you have no way to contribute your eventual solution to the problem.

Do not use a centralized service for civil disobedience

The companies importing products sold their debt to massive debt collecting firms who will receive the rebate so no.

That website was the fastest loading website I’ve ever visited.

Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.

And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.

I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.

(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)

Stremio

If you want decentralized private messaging see https://delta.chat

Signal is nog steeds centralized. Zodra investeerders opdrogen en ze hun servers sluiten is de app niet meer te gebruiken. Een decentrale app zoals https://delta.chat zal veel langer meegaan.

Delta Chat aims for “WhatsApp-level” simplicity and these webxdc zips are just called “apps” when regular users interact with them in the Delta Chat app.

This blog post goes a bit more in-depth on what they are, how they work and how you can build one. Which I thought would be interesting for this Technology forum.

Yeah the spec is at https://webxdc.org/ and it is implemented by Delta Chat and a couple XMPP clients.

I don’t use Matrix so I’m not sure.

simple to use

• share a webxdc zip file in your chat
• ???
• profit

Not sure how to make that simpler

big accounts won’t move over, nor will their followers.

This post is about private messaging, not social media.