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  • How is the privacy questionable?

    It’s one of the more secure clients. It has E2E across everything: DMs, Group chats, phone calls, video calls and all.

    In contrast, Telegram, which is often championed doesn’t even support E2E for group chats. Laughable.

    Yes, Whatsapp does some on-device analytics for advertising purposes, but your message is always E2E encrypted before sending.

    They had multiple 3P audits to prove it.

    Some delusional people use Facebook messenger instead claiming both are FB anyway. NO. FB messenger doesn’t have any encryption. Your messages are stored in plain text.

    Yes, Signal and Matrix etc. are better, but no one is using them and that goes against the very idea of communication.




  • Meanwhile, Mastodon dies. Lemmy and kbin might survive because they fill a different niche; however, if instances start federating with Threads and making it possible to follow people on there, then the same exodus will happen.

    I agree that it’s a direct threat to Mastodon. I disagree same will happen to Lemmy and Kbin. I don’t see Threats ever becoming a anonymity oriented platform. It’s tied to an Instagram account.

    Even if they support it in the future, just like Twitter and Mastodon, the primary users will be real identities. That goes directly against the concept of Lemmy and Kbin.

    Not everything fits the same paradigm. We can keep parroting the history just for the sake of it or we can adapt and see that things evolve over time.




  • People are going the reddit hivemind again in lemmy.

    Just repeating in echo chambers without rationale.

    If you look at my history, I’ve been trying to get some useful information regarding Threads, but have received much less useful comments than I would even receive on reddit.

    Personally, I’d really like to access to Threads from my anonymous account on another instance, since Threads account is strictly tied to an Instagram account.

    I guess it’s the nature of social media nowadays. Lots of noise, very little actual signal.