2k20 worst social media platform (facebook, twitter, instagram)

Batman

what's wrong with signal

i hate to ask because i know you already tried, but just in case -- did you try restarting it?

Signal for a time seemed to be "where to buy" "neti pot, kombucha," if you catch my drift

group chat wanted to use telegram, but I said no to any CCCP CP.

so now we're on signal.

Do real people use Slack and discord

I think there's still generally a business/gaming divide between those two

The midjourney Discord is like the world’s worst IRC server because of the volume. I’m suspicious there’s not a Discord middle ground, it’s either dead or thousands of people screaming into the void ala Twitch chat.

I use slack, discord and signal, but I am not a real person.

still wondering who uses Signal!

― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:16 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Batman

― stank viola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 18 October 2022 19:22 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol

I'm not real either! It is liberating to realize

Batman uses Batbook
Robin is so sick of his shit

Signal is great for u know what

sex?

I don't talk to anyone on signal except for the same eight people, but man, y'all are making me curious.

taking sides - Muskker va Signal

https://www.engadget.com/elon-musk-twitter-signal-000946031.html

Signal has been great for a long-distance relationship, just talking back and forth in an ongoing way (vs. texting, calls, emails, whatever.). Not sure if this is the same as WeChat, other than that it’s encrypted.

sex?

Or the overthrow of the government, either/or.

Why has WhatsApp never taken off in the U.S.? It seems ubiquitous in other countries.

Why has WhatsApp never taken off in the U.S.? It seems ubiquitous in other countries.

It's extremely popular among immigrants from Central and South America, and probably Africa as well (all the African musicians I know contact me via WhatsApp).

My job uses WhatsApp because we have a lot of India/Philippines colleagues

That Budweiser ad campaign. Not enough time has passed to recover

Bud
Weis
Fuel can't melt steel

WhatsApp a Facebook app is why I steer clear.

for group & individual chat in China I used Wechat, in the UK I use WhatsApp, what do people use in the US if not WhatsApp?

two separate threads on ilxor.com

but my mum isn't on ilxor.com (or is she?)

maybe there shoul dbe a thread about Signal

only Signal I care about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqF4Qtz7BkM

https://sourceforge.net/software/compare/Discord-vs-Signal-vs-Slack-vs-WeChat/

only Discord I care about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiiqVFsz0dE

a very frantic song

don't have any fav songs about wechat or whatsapp but might be able to find one about slack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9xjj4LV6G0

still relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl1CsAdfaLk

Jim Cramer is tearing up over $META

Generational bottom in process pic.twitter.com/3tICGm6qoi

— Inverse Cramer ETF (Not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) October 27, 2022

"Let me say this: I made a mistake here. I was wrong. I trusted this management team. That was ill-advised. The hubris here is extraordinary, and I apologize," Cramer said. "OK," said Faber. "What did you get wrong?"
Cramer explained that he did not expect Meta to spend as much as it had, calling it "almost a rogue situation."
"What did I get wrong?" he said, visibly choking up. "I trusted them, not myself. For that I regret. I've been in this business for 40 years, and I did a bad job. I'm not proud."

HE MADE A MISTAKE

don't have any fav songs about wechat or whatsapp but might be able to find one about slack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TzdnH3GZ2o

Why has WhatsApp never taken off in the U.S.? It seems ubiquitous in other countries.

there's a huge first mover advantage with this stuff - whatsapp got to a lot of the world before fb or anything else did (before fb acquired it), while fb messenger is still fairly popular (the most popular? idk) in the usa. it's also why line is the most popular in japan/taiwan/thailand, and why kakaotalk is the most popular in south korea.

i remember teaching a class at columbia the day whatsapp was acquired (2013?) and going into the class and saying to 20 students "did you hear how much facebook paid for whatsapp? crazy right?" and the only one who had even heard of whatsapp was from iran.

So you're saying it didn't devolve into a bad "who's on first" routine?

ha!

is whatsapp just a messenger? when i had it, i just used it to message people, but apparently things "go viral" on whatsapp

think of it like something going viral via email forwards

kind of. it has a "forward" feature which boomers use, and the groups can get very large (e.g. conservative MPs famously use it).

maximum group size is 512. (imessage is 32 by comparison.)

The only reason I have WhatsApp is because I don't have an iPhone, so it's the easiest cheap way for me to communicate with family overseas.

like a discord

xp
yeah groups mean you don't have to type out a bunch of people's addresses, but the basic principle is still the same, no? hence the word "forward" enduring. It's much faster and scaled-up ofc, but my point was virality originated in messaging media so it's not surprising or new. I haven't been on it in years though, so maybe I'm missing something

I don't think with Whatsapp that you can join topic-based servers filled with randos like on Discord, but I genuinely don't know if that's right

you can't. it's basically imessage but with a better UX for large groups and no fear that someone with green bubbles will mess things up, and a thing called "broadcast lists" which are groups where only one person can post (schools and daycares like those IIUC).

interesting correction to my "virality originated in messaging media" claim that I just remembered: https://viraltexts.org/

Genuinely had no idea WhatsApp wasn’t popular in America. My account dates back to 2009/2010(?), when I had a blackberry (lol) and WhatsApp was the only app that allowed you to talk cross platform with friends on iPhone and Android.