I like AI

I think that’s far too low tbh

Please elaborate

You only just noticed this now?

To be fair WhatsApp is also pretty bad. Telegram used to be the gold standard but they’ve been making it more and more crappy for the last few years

I haven’t used default texting since 2010 😅

Here’s a list I made last time I tried it. Might not all still be true!

• Signal accounts are tied to a phone number, which is dumb and limiting. You can’t contact someone by username only (or let someone contact you without giving them your phone number), nor can you have multiple phone numbers (I have a work phone and personal phone).
• Signal has no polls or pinned messages.
• No cloud chats comes with a few disadvantages e.g. no global search across all chat history.
• No cloud media storage means you only can keep as much as you can fit on your device, whereas in telegram i can still look at pictures sent to me a decade ago.
• No bot api, which most people probably don’t care about but sucks for me cos I regularly make telegram bots to improve my experience and for fun.
• Signal also has no custom themes but that’s kinda meh.
• Signal has no silent or scheduled messages, and editing/deleting a messages is time-limited (and beta).
• Pretty sure telegram has better emoji reactions and animated gifs etc though not sure.

That’s a ridiculously low bar, I wouldn’t wish the default texting app on my worst enemy

My friends and I would love to switch to Signal but every time we try it we just find that the app isn’t very nice to use and a lot of functionality we have come to take for granted is missing. Has it improved recently or is that still the case?

Yes it does

You’ve managed to be wrong 4 times in one sentence, that’s impressive

Is nobody gonna mention the mixing of different types of dashes?

Guess I’m in the 10%

Personally I never respond if someone just writes “hi”, but i will always answer actual questions/requests

You have just described most software

Gotta say, of those two arguments, Brave’s is stronger

Personally as long as I’m not contributing to their wealth in some way I don’t think it really matters what the CEO of the company that makes a product does. I’m mostly just going to use the best product for me. Now there is an argument that simply by using it I’m contributing to their usage numbers which helps them, and that’s definitely true for social media platforms because of the network effect (which is why I stay off of the corporate ones), but it’s less true of other products. In fact if i use an ad-supported product but block the ads I’m likely costing them more than I am a benefit.

It’s also a spectrum rather than black and white: every medium or larger tech company, especially if american due to the deregulated and in many cases openly corrupt capitalism, is going to do evil things for profit and be both run and owned by evil people/corporations. But their level of danger to global society varies. Musk is extremely dangerous because of his active campaign to bring fascism and nationalism to power in Europe, which is why x.com is blocked in my house at a DNS level. Other billionaires are dangerous too but they’re not all equal.

It’s not a difficulty issue It’s that lots of us have tried Firefox and don’t like it.

Personally I don’t use Firefox because it is buggy, is missing critical features, implements some web standards weirdly and has weird user agent styles. The end result is that many websites don’t look right and don’t work correctly and/or fully

This is the only possible explanation of why people think Princess Bride is good

Ruf den Krankenwagen, jemand muss in die Verbrennungsklinik