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'Member when Facebook was like that? You know, the way people want it?

Well I don’t use any Meta apps.
But I have to use SMS for certain people

So all in all, would you say my messages are more likely to be captured by Meta when using WhatsApp, or SMS? I ask in good faith. I am aware SMS isn’t secure, but at least it isn’t literally hosted by Meta… So if Meta was my main concern for my threat model would you still recommend WhatsApp?

It’s a fork of open source software. If only “line go up” didn’t have to be the way things worked they could have stopped developing features no one wants just to squeeze out profit, and sustained without enshittifying. Maybe.

I went in with this being my strategy too, but ended up just sticking with using /all and not bothering with my subs.

Once you’ve got anything undesirable blocked, you’re golden. And always finding new communities.

If you trust Meta not to snoop, which I dont

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/

How private can WhatsApp be if Meta owns it?

Signal for those who have it and SMS for everyone else

Meek row wah vay

Isn’t everyone exempt from arrest when just asking questions?

I’ve left gmail and had no real challenges with spam filtering or anything else so far. I lost integration between calendar photos drive etc, which has removed some convenience, but that was also kind of the point.

Ahhh Mortal Kombat, and Hackers

This may be obscure but I only remember this song from a 90s cable TV commercial for a completion CD of “funny” music.

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Good one. People do still say “hold fast”!

You mean after the sex?

This is kind of hilarious. Right wingers seek to limit privacy by forcing age verification online, and then the right wing social network gets caught in the same net. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.

France passed a law requiring porn sites to verify age of all site visitors. Pornhub is blocking France instead of forcing its visitors to provide ID.