• gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
    30·
    11 months ago

    discord is my compromise platform, because the only other platform all my friends could agree on was whatsapp, and fuck meta

    • stebo02@sopuli.xyz
      9·
      11 months ago

      They agree on WhatsApp? All my friends want to stick to the horrible Facebook Messenger for some reason.

      • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
        6·
        11 months ago

        We’re a weird mix of nerds in our mid to late 30s, some care enough about privacy to not have Facebook, but had been on whatsapp since pre meta.

        Some refuse to install new apps, because “ugh not another one”

        Definitely a compromise

        • KeenFlame
          6·
          11 months ago

          They want to appear to care about privacy, you mean.

          Because all of those apps own (literally or is their property) every image text and other data you give it

          • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
            1·
            11 months ago

            there are levels of data hygiene and levels of inconvenience people willing to put up with. Pumping less data points into the machine is still better than pumping more

            • KeenFlame
              1·
              11 months ago

              I don’t agree. Pumping more is better if you don’t care. Because then it can provide the services of knowing you.

      • gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com
        8·
        11 months ago

        it was a difficult choice - I pushed for them all to join signal, but there were some holdouts.

        Whatsapp was e2ee, which discord is not. Discord can run in a webbrowser or a sandboxed flatpak on my desktop. All messengers suck, what ya gonna do?

    • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      well, both are terrible choices.
      discord: no end-to-end encryption
      whatsapp: mobile number is your identity

      but yeah, it’s pick you poison.