Anyway I thought Telegram was the most active messaging app for right wing extremists. I’ve never tried that one.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
and I assume people are just kidding w/stuff like "white nationalists use it" cuz that's like objecting to sending packages in the mail because of the unabomber
― rob, Wednesday, October 19, 2022 1:06 PM bookmarkflaglink
I wasn't saying that as an objection, just pointing out it does have a wide reach. might even tell my team to move to it, but i haven't tried it yet.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:52 (one year ago) link
I just use the regular text messaging app for group chats
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
xpyeah I mean I first heard about it from (leftist) activists, so it definitely has a rep as a political tool. I'm just confused why people bring up the (possibly false) far-right association but no one seems to mention, e.g., Whatsapp being implicated in actual genocide
I do sympathize with being compelled to use a partic app just to chat, as I have friends who only contact me through Instagram DMs and I hate it
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
i mean i'd be a massive hypocrite to call out Signal for that when I use FB of all things, lol.
WhatsApp has also been used to share larger vids w/ me. friends sent me a vid showing me how to give their cat insulin injections
didn't stop the cat from scratching me anyway I blame Whatsapp for that
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:05 (one year ago) link
there's a subreddit for that? r/catscratchinsulinvideos (not really)!
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
All of these apps will be subsumed into X.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
― | (Latham Green), Wednesday, October 19, 2022 6:07 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Worst social media platform thread is over there >>>>>> (((to the FAR RIGHT)))
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
Actually the worst is the nasty dysfunctional feedback loop of Reddit and Youtube.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 18:21 (one year ago) link
Honestly, Signal is barebones and I don’t understand why anyone would need anything else from a text messaging app— that I cannot make Signal the default messaging app on my phone is the thing about my phone that pisses me off the most. I hate the way iMessage or whatever looks
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 21:54 (one year ago) link
I think if everybody you know is using Apple stuff, "Messages" is about as good as Signal: It's supposedly end-to-end encrypted. I've used a chat program to talk to friends going back to ICQ (followed by AIM -> Yahoo messenger -> Facebook messenger -> messages/SMS -> Google Hangouts/Talk -> Signal. Out of all of those apps, Signal and Messages made me feel the most confident that my conversations were private. I do not "have anything to hide" or do anything illegal, but I don't like the feeling of wondering if I should self-censor in a supposedly private conversation - whether it's from a fear of a joke being misconstrued or Google's machine learning picking up keywords to sell to marketers for targeted advertising, I like my conversations private and I'm happy to pay for that service.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 23:14 (one year ago) link
Like is the prez has to have some one send him the nuclear codes he should not use whatsapp
It seems like human bahavior is already the bigger problem - leave it to IT people think better software fixes everything - https://blog.avast.com/uber-hack
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:25 (one year ago) link
Messages is great if everyone is on iPhone and not everyone is already on WhatsApp or local equivalent. The only social groups where that’s true are in the upper end of the income distribution in North America. It’s just not a situation that happens much outside that.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 October 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link
I have only known one person in my life to use WHatsApp - it reminds me of the ORkut situation - only a Brazilian station?https://applemagazine.com/is-the-long-extinct-social-network-orkut-on-the-verge-of-a-comeback/52177
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 12:39 (one year ago) link
caek otm
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:23 (one year ago) link
WhatsApp is cheaper for people than regular texting in a lot of places where you pay per text. Also cheaper if you text people with international numbers.
― Position Position, Thursday, 20 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict
― mh, Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:23 (one year ago) link
world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
only commies use whatsapp - USA Boldbloods use one of teh three Musk-eteers apps ! This is Reagan's future
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
"world where I'm forced to get a fucking iPhone to communicate with friends and family sounds just great, fantastic idea there"
iPhone really gouges people on price if you ask me - but isnt it odd that Beyonce and me could use the same phone - were is the million-dollar Ferrari phone
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah in india there are cheap phone plans that just have whatsapp instead of data, for some people it is the internet
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 October 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
^ brazil's the same
― fpsa, Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:49 (one year ago) link
I had to use it to coordinate my pickups and dropoffs during my office visit in the Philippines.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 October 2022 18:52 (one year ago) link
coke?
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:56 (one year ago) link
lol no rides to and from the office
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 October 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
WhatsApp is the de facto choice pretty much everywhere other than the US (and maybe Canada?) afaict― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mh, Thursday, October 20, 2022 10:23 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
not korea (kakao https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/19/world/asia/korea-kakao-ceo.html is wild), japan (line), eastern europe and one girl from park slope i went on a tinder date with in 2013 (viber) and china (wechat).
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
It figures that an Elon Musk thread has turned into a discussion of messaging apps.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
it's all leading towards X, everything leads towards X
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
It's not a crossroads, it's a singularity.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:01 (one year ago) link
He should buy goatse.cx
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 20 October 2022 21:30 (one year ago) link
just two edgelords living in the moment pic.twitter.com/iouBxhGnkI— Kevin Rothrock (@KevinRothrock) October 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Thursday, 20 October 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
he pay too much lol
Social media market caps (2021 peak to today)Snap $131B → $14BMeta $1.07T→ $353BTwitter $61B → $40BPinterest $56B → $15B— Troy Osinoff 🕺 (@yo) October 20, 2022
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 October 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
I saw someone say it's like announcing you want to buy a car, changing your mind, changing your mind again, then crashing the car, then saying you still want to buy it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:18 (one year ago) link
aside from whatever damage he mightve done to the company his timing was just terrible, making an offer right in the middle of a gigantic crash of the sector, twitter would prob be trading at a third of what hes paying
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 October 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
Seems like his only hope now is to make enough Putin-friendly noises on Twitter to provoke a national security review that will bar him from going through with the purchase.
― o. nate, Friday, 21 October 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fMQcZDW.png
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
post article said the deal is prob closing next week xp
― lag∞n, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk plans to lay off most of Twitter’s workforce if and when he becomes owner of the social media company, according to a report Thursday by The Washington Post.
Musk has told prospective investors in his Twitter purchase that he plans to cut nearly 75% of Twitter’s employee base of 7,500 workers, leaving the company with a skeleton crew, according to the report...
Gonna be awful lonely in the cafeteria.
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 21 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
I hope the actual citizens of the TL rise up and takes the building, that's what Musk and Twitter deserve afaic.
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 21 October 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Who will be the last person to tweet, and what conspiracy theory will they be pushing?
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 21 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
and who will own the NFT for that tweet?
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link
who taught him to talk like this
“Government is simply the biggest corporation, with the sole monopoly on violence.” — @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/1SqS8qMs3F— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) October 15, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
the state's monopoly on violence should rightfully be his because he could discipline & extract value from workers more effectively without government regulation, better than a government itself can? (capital allocation as the financial abstraction of this?)
― Left, Sunday, 23 October 2022 14:19 (one year ago) link
the antistatism is of course totally opportunistic and hypocritical and feels like something between a pose and a threat
― Left, Sunday, 23 October 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
feel like this might be evidence of exposure to anarcho capitalism, which which would stand to reason i guess what with being into crypto
― lag∞n, Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:08 (one year ago) link
feel like thiel and andreessen probably also often talk this way, and with a somewhat firmer intellectual grounding?
i mean i don't think they're advanced political thinkers or anything but musk by comparison is a mid stoner dunce with far too much time and money on his hands
― mark s, Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:12 (one year ago) link
sub-mid in fact
^^^speaking truth to power here
how long until the helicopter memes or has he gone there already
― your original display name is still visible (Left), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:14 (one year ago) link
feel like Twitter would be better if in addition to followers, it gave a complete list of people that also hate you. but that would probably just egg Elon Musk on.
this feels more like him intentionally trying to say something that winds up being a decades-enduring quote and failing miserably.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:16 (one year ago) link
given how much govt capital Musk has gotten, I have to agree with him here
― rob, Sunday, 23 October 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link