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  • darreninthenet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 years ago

    Unless I’ve missed something I don’t see how this makes WhatsApp worse…? Just don’t sign up to the people’s channels if you don’t want to 🤷🏻‍♂️

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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        3 years ago

        How is this turning it into a data farm? It did that when it plundered your address book, and kept track of who you messaged when.

        Sure, they will probably stay monetizing it a few years from now, but right now they aren’t. Enshittification is a term with a very specific meaning, and it does not mean “features I don’t like”.

          • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
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            3 years ago

            How do you define enshittification?

            I don’t. I use Doctorows definition.

            If anything, if you prefer signal to WhatsApp (I do), you should be happy with its enshittification - because that means it’s killing itself. But it’s not, and it’s already shit, and its users are okay with that.

            adding paid promotions to something that never had them is always the beginning

            • They’re not paid
            • They’re not promotions
            • It’s opt-in

            It’s basically a way to keep up with events you’re already interested in (your favourite band, local soccer club, etc). You’re complaining about an optional feature you don’t want to use, that doesn’t even exist yet, and misrepresent it as ads.

  • spacedance@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    3 years ago

    You heard a cool new word and used it where it doesn’t work, this feature isn’t bad at all. If Signal didn’t alienate a large number of users by removing SMS maybe switching would be more viable.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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      3 years ago

      alienate a large number of users by removing SMS

      Would you mind elaborating on this?

      SMS in Signal was never secure (it’s SMS), and so it was removed. Now I have private messaging in Signal, and if some one sends me an SMS, it shows up in my stock texting app. No false sense of security and it’s very easy to use 2 apps.

      • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 years ago

        The enshittification actually began several years ago, back when FB bought WhatsApp. That was the moment you gave up on privacy, the moment that was a clear sign that it was all going to go downhill from there. If y’all didn’t quit WhatsApp at that time, then you bought it upon yourselves. The truth is, you’ve been using a shitty service for a long time and whoring your data to Meta and making Zuckerberg richer, so this latest feature bloat or w/e isn’t the least bit interesting.

    • fernandofig@reddthat.comEnglish
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      3 years ago

      If Signal didn’t alienate a large number of users by removing SMS maybe switching would be more viable.

      This. I hate Whatsapp, but I have to use it because that’s what everybody else (where I live) uses, so either I cave, or be Incommunicable by everyone and get used to explaining why while sounding like a dork.

      I used Signal because, although a very small set of friends used it, I had an excuse to keep it because it handled SMS, and so I could keep it in the hopes that eventually WA would shoot itself in the foot and people would finally migrate, but since they removed SMS, why the hell would I hold on to it if I’d have no reason to other that I like it?

    • Bye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 years ago

      Yes I dropped signal when it stopped supporting sms. That was a really dumb choice and I honestly don’t know why they did it