European. Liberal. Green. I do not downvote opinions, jeering at people is poor form. Comments with insulting language, or snark, or gotchas, or other effort-free content, will simply be ignored.
This is helpful and I agree. You forgot Slack and IRC!
I propose this breakdown of the basic software paradigms:
God I hate it when people say “check my Substack”. It’s a blog dammit.
Final proof that AI is labor-saving.
I’m thinking there might be an Easter egg buried deep inside one of the paragraphs but I can’t quite find the courage to look.
At heart, liberalism just means putting the individual before the collective. So there can be lots of varieties of liberal. But a debate on terminology will quickly get quite boring. From what I can tell, this community is hardly even liberal, let alone neoliberal. That was my point. It seems that people are seeing in others the ideologies they want to see.
This was exactly my point! “Neoliberal.”
A geographically based default is a great idea.
What “obvious” political stance might that be?
To me, it’s “somewhere on the progressive side of the median” but I’m almost expecting you to say “fascist” or something, given the extent of America’s polarization.
Another thing: in popular communities the comments are coming from all over, so without keeping a mental tally of everyone’s usernames I find it’s getting quite hard to pin down any particular instance’s biases.
But it’s not serious and evokes images of a spotty teenager in a basement.
While this is of course true (and I too have professional experience in this field), my own experience is the opposite. The UX and defaults here are generally better than on, for example, the R-site.
But it’s a free Europe-based provider that’s not US big tech. A better suggestion?
To be clear, I use a paid service (Mailbox.org) for my main email, as everyone should do.
They are right. Terminology is important in this discussion.
It’s considered a good idea because it runs over omnipresent, already-existent, distributed infrastructure. In other words, for this particular chat app, you don’t even need to create an account. That is at very least an interesting and noteworthy feature.
some issues with many email providers
This turned out to be the deal-breaker for me. GMX kept locking me out of my account because of the DeltaChat messages. They’re (of course) full of cyphertext and to email providers this must look a look like spam.
The open-to-abuse nature of email claims yet another victim.
Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.
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Great other choices too.
My point was about the social scenario, which is a genuine puzzle because most people want to have friends. I’ve lost some over this.
For the business context (this was the subject, true), I find that’s much easier: “F*** off and send an email.” Impossible? Well then that’s one less customer for you. I have lots of experience of doing exactly this. Almost always the email suddenly becomes possible after all.
It’s owned by Brian Acton
No, he is a founder and a donor. It’s owned by the Signal Foundation, which is a classic non-profit that seeks funding from lots of sources.
Yeah but you see the point? They offer us one option. We offer them ten.
“You don’t have any of them installed? Well, I don’t have Whatsapp installed. So one of us is going to have to go out of our way. Why should you assume that’s for me to do, just because everyone else including you behaved like an unthinking herd of sheep?” That’s what I feel like saying, and occasionally do actually say.
It’s a difficult conundrum. Speaking personally, but at this point resisting the Whatsapp fascism has become a stubborn article of faith for me. I won’t do it.
Good point. Theoretically surmountable because Wikipedia.
But donors are going to have to be convinced that social media is a social good.
While Masturdon was ripe for the picking
How about doing it after a certain period has elapsed? A week, or 30 days, say.
This would approximate the freemium model where early access is paid and archives are free.
It might make it easier to get creators on board.